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Injured robots learn to limp

Must...keep...going...complete...mission.

Josh Bongard's robots walk, but they do not stride. They flop, wiggle, and scrape their way along on four, starfish-like legs. But what these robots lack in grace, they make up for in ingenuity.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 16, 2006 06:49 PM |

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Terminator movie comments aside, a mention of for example neural networks or any other information that would confirm that an intelligent reader knows something about robotics already would dispel his delusion that he was watching a news item on (t-word omitted for reasons of propriety).

Posted by: Dimitri Boscainos | November 20, 2006 05:27 PM

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