Learning Robots

Came across the site Learning Robots and was really impressed. From the site:

Some hardwired, pre-programmed robots such as TU Munich's humanoid walking biped and BU Munich's fast robot car perform impressive tasks. But they do not learn like humans do.
So how can we make them learn from experience? Unfortunately, traditional reinforcement learning algorithms are limited to simple reactive behavior and do not work well for realistic robots.

Robot learning in realistic environments requires novel algorithms for learning to identify important events in the stream of sensory inputs, and to temporarily memorize them in adaptive, dynamic, internal states until the memories can help to compute proper control actions.