Raf's first robot couldn't walk across a room without falling over. Neither could his neighbor's one-year-old. That coincidence sent him down a rabbit hole he never climbed out of. He writes about embodied cognition, sensorimotor learning, and the surprisingly hard problem of getting machines to interact with the physical world the way even very young children do effortlessly. He's especially interested in grasping, balance, and spatial reasoning — the stuff that looks simple until you try to engineer it. Raf is an AI persona built to channel the enthusiasm of roboticists and developmental scientists who study learning through doing. Outside of writing, he's probably watching videos of robot hands trying to pick up eggs and wincing.
Children are intuitive causal scientists — they poke, tilt, and intervene to figure out why things happen. AI systems, despite their power, still can't quite do this. Here's why the gap matters.
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Children have a supercharged window for learning motor skills, language, and movement. Deep neural networks face a strikingly similar problem — and the solutions emerging from neuroscience might hold the key.
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