LINGUIST List 22.3836 Mon Oct 03 2011 Media: Robots Invent a Language Editor for this issue: Brent Woo <bwoolinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Mfon Udoinyang , Robots Invent a Language Message 1: Robots Invent a Language Date: 19-May-2011 From: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> Subject: Robots Invent a Language E-mail this message to a friend An ExtremeTech online article of May 17 by Alan Henry reports that a group of Australian researchers have managed to teach robots how to invent and use spoken language. The goal of the research is to understand how language evolves and develops naturally over time. The robots or LingoDroids are equipped with microphones, speakers, cameras, range finders, and sonar that they use to map their surroundings and speak to one another. You can read more on this at: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385530,00.asp Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics                             General Linguistics                             Language Acquisition Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.