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This programme looks at the very first stages of the child's ability to handle and manipulate objects. The stages young children go through in the first year of life are traced, comparing progress ...to that made by robots. The developmental framework behind the child's ability to learn hoe to grasp an object is explained and problems encountered by robotics specialists as they try to get their robots to be as effective as young babies described.
This programme looks at the very first stages of the child's ability to handle and manipulate objects. The stages young children go through in the first year of life are traced, comparing progress ...to that made by robots. The developmental framework behind the child's ability to learn hoe to grasp an object is explained and problems encountered by robotics specialists as they try to get their robots to be as effective as young babies described.
| Module code and title: | E362, Cognitive development: language and thinking - birth to adolescence |
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| Item code: | E362; 09 |
| First transmission date: | 1988 |
| Published: | 1988 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:56 |
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| Producer: | Anne Diack |
| Contributors: | Lesley Judd; Peter Willatt |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Degrees of freedom; Developmental sequence; Palmer grasp; Peter Mowforth; Pincer grasp; Pre-reaching |
| Subject terms: | Child development; Motor ability in children; Perceptual-motor learning |
| Master spool number: | HOU5917 |
| Production number: | FOUE222Y |
| Videofinder number: | 1397 |
| Available to public: | no |
