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\f0\fs30 \cf0 ROBOTS LEAD LONELY LIVES \'85 THEY COMPLETE THE SAME TASK OVER AND OVER
AGAIN, WORKING AS INDIVIDUALS AND NEVER AS A TEAM\'97UNTIL NOW
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\f0\fs30 Tanner: The team could do work in coordination, things that single robots could
not do. \'a0 \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\fs30 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE RESEARCHERS BELIEVE TEAMS OF ROBOTS COULD WORK TOGETHER
AND EVEN \'96 ACT AS FIRST RESPONDERS. \'a0 \f1\fs32 \
\f0\fs30 TO DO THAT, ROBOTS NEED TO DO MORE THAN COMPLETE ONE REPETITIVE TASK. THEY MUST
LEARN TO COOPERATE WITH EACH OTHER. \f1\fs32 \
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\f0\fs30 Tanner: If we know how to coordinate robots to figure out how to do things automatically
just by describing to them what we need them to do we should have the fundamental knowledge
to be able to coordinate emergency response teams. \'a0
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\f0\fs30 TANNER BELIEVES THE KEY IS ROOTED IN HOW CHILDREN LEARN LANGUAGE.
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\f0\fs30 Tanner: Focusing on languages that have very specific structure. \'a0The idea
here is that if we can reproduce the structure in our robotic systems. \'a0
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\f0\fs30 THE U-D RESEARCHERS HOPE TO PROGRAM ROBOTS TO RECOGNIZE OTHER ROBOTS, \'a0SO THEY
LEARN WHO PLAYS WHAT ROLE \'85 FINALLY MAKING THEM TEAM PLAYERS. \'a0}