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Science News - January 19, 2011

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Scientists are developing "social robots" that are taking baby steps toward humanlike smarts. Developmental psychology's advice for producing smarter robots is simple: Make them social learners. Give machines the capacity to move about, sense the world and engage with people. That's a tall order. "A robot that learned could potentially be more adaptive than a robot that had to be programmed," said Temple psychologist Nora Newcombe in the print edition of Science News.