How do you make a creepy baby robot downright cute? Give it an Indian headdress and teach it the the bow-and-arrow, of course. The same team of researchers who brought us the pancake-flipping robot arm have imbued this iCub with a learning algorithm that lets it teach itself archery much the same as a human might do, by watching where the suction-tipped arrow lands and adjusting its aim for each subsequent shot, in this case obtaining a perfect bullseye after just
