From 2004 to 2006, Sony held a yearly conference called Intellegent Dynamics (インテリジェンス・ダイナミクス). In 2004, several university professors and internal Sony researchers showed off behaviors on Qrio using recursive neural networks and Hidden Markov Models. In 2005, researchers showed off Qrio learning from human demonstrations to hit a bell, roll a ball, imitate speech, and stack blocks. For the experiment in mimicking human speech, Qrio was modified to have a moving mouth and movable eyelids.

In 2006, Qrio demonstrated unstacking a tower of bricks, rolling a miniature bus, sliding down a slide, rocking on a rocking horse, and even walking using a central pattern generator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYMt4EWJ74

Written on August 8, 2022