Researchers Are Developing A Robot Language Knowing a couple of languages is helpful in a global society. And here's one you may want to add: ROILA. That would be Robot Interaction Language -- a new spoken language that researchers in the Netherlands are working on to help people talk to their growing number of helper robots.

Researchers Are Developing A Robot Language

Researchers Are Developing A Robot Language

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Knowing a couple of languages is helpful in a global society. And here's one you may want to add: ROILA. That would be Robot Interaction Language — a new spoken language that researchers in the Netherlands are working on to help people talk to their growing number of helper robots.

MARY LOUISE KELLY, Host:

Good morning. I'm Mary Louise Kelly.

ROILA: It's MORNING EDITION.

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