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.
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Nicola Nosengo is a freelance science writer based in Rome.
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Nosengo, N. Robotics: The bot that plays ball. Nature 460, 1076–1078 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4601076a
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