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Featherless Bipeds
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
06/15/03 |
| In the featured "Dinner with..." series, Astrobiology Magazine looks at the possibilities for computers to emulate complex human patterns. The father of artificial intelligence and Nobel Laureate, Herbert Simon, gives a short course in life. |
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Breeding Computer Code
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
05/08/03 |
| When biologists and computer scientists meet, their hybrid projects have produced intriguing models for evolution. A team of Michigan State and Caltech scientists report in Nature on their method of breeding computer code to mimic some features of evolutionary theory. |
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Web Walking Robot Explorers
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
01/04/03 |
| This week's selection for the Extreme Explorers' Hall of Fame is from researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who have created a micro robot reminiscent. |
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Martian Rocks, Robot Retrieves
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
11/07/02 |
| Remarkably, on average, one Martian meteorite lands on Earth each month. But finding these scientific treasures is not a job for a human, at least according to the Nomad robot - this week's entry in the Extreme Explorers Hall of Fame. |
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Entomopter: Extreme Explorer's Hall of Fame
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
09/13/02 |
| Fixed wing flyers are difficult to build as Martian roving vehicles. But this week's Extreme Explorer tries to learn from the terrestrial insect world. |
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Extreme Explorers' Hall of Fame: FIDO
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
09/06/02 |
| Extreme Explorers' Hall of Fame will show you the best explorers of extreme environments; these machines, rovers, submersibles and crawlers all aim to traverse the toughest terrain. |
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Squaring Off with a Robotic Serpent
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| Topic: Robotics & A.I. |
02/21/01 |
| NASA engineers are developing an intelligent robot snake that can slither over or around obstacles and into cracks in a planet's surface. The "snakebot may one day search for water and fossils on other planets. |
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