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A team of experts at The University of Manchester has been awarded major EU funding to help design smarter robots that will have more meaningful dialogue with humans after developing improved insight into our inner feelings through language. 

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded , co-director of the , a total of 鈧�2.5million as part of the eTALK project.

The Manchester research team will combine expertise in AI and psychology to focus on the fact that smart machines still only understand about one-third of the meaning of human language. 

To progress their ability to understand humans more fully robots will act as 青瓜视频榯utors青瓜视频� to help children better understand numerical and abstract concepts. This in turn will then help robots engage more meaningfully with older generations of humans. 

Angelo Cangelosi, Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at The University of Manchester, explains that language is the most natural means of communication among people to talk about and share experiences 青瓜视频� and for robots to understand and communicate with us. 

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To meet this challenge, the ERC Advanced eTALK project will take direct inspiration from the way children and adults use and learn abstract words 青瓜视频� and use methods from AI and psychology to develop a new generation of robots capable of communicating with people about internal feelings, numbers, and other abstract words. 

The award of this project builds on, and recognises, the reputation of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI, and the expertise from Professor Cangelosi and his team in combining psychological concepts with AI and robotics, to design robots that positively impact society. 

The ERC has announced the awarding of 218 Advanced Grants to outstanding research leaders across Europe, as part of the Horizon Europe programme. The grants 青瓜视频� totalling 鈧�544 million 青瓜视频� support cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, from medicine and physics to social sciences and humanities.