The Navy wants to teach robots to teach themselves in a learning-by-doing experiment

Can robots teach themselves new tricks? In theory they can, according to researchers at the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory. In a new white paper, they lay out how robots, like people, can learn by using a curriculum and a learning agenda. To learn how they will test that theory, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with research scientists Laura Hiatt and Mark Roberts from the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.