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NCNP and Waseda Demonstrate Robot Learning of Caregiving Actions
A research group from the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry and Waseda University announced that it had implemented an AI model based on the brain’s predictive processing theory in a humanoid robot.
What happened
On August 17, 2026, NCNP announced that research with Waseda University and others had implemented an AI model based on predictive processing in a multi-degree-of-freedom humanoid robot and demonstrated that it could learn multiple caregiving actions. The findings were published in the international academic journal Science Advances at 3 a.m. on August 15.
Sources
Translated from the Japanese original: /news/ncnp-to-soudai-nou-no-yosoku-shori-riron-de-robotto-ga-fukus-18930b. The Japanese version is authoritative if they differ.