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Published online 26 August 2009 | Nature 460, 1076-1078 (2009) | doi:10.1038/4601076a
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Robotics: The bot that plays ball
He looks like a child and plays like a child. But can the iCub robot reveal how a child learns and thinks? Nicola Nosengo reports.
Giulio Sandini cannot help smiling as his child reaches out a hand and tries to grasp the red ball that Sandini keeps waving before his eyes. "He is getting really good at it," he says, with the proud tone of any father.
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