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Scientists have created robots that can adapt and recover like an animal when damaged

  • 06-06-2015 01:20AM
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    You’re panting, trying to hold your breath. If that robot finds you, you’re toast. The door creaks open—and you shoot. You just blew the arm off the robot trying to kill you, but somehow it’s still coming! You fire again, and this time get a piece of its leg. Undaunted, it continues limping your way. As the robot descends, you curse the names of Antoine Cully and Jean-Baptiste Mouret.

    That’s because Cully and Mouret are the scientists who led a group from Paris’s Pierre and Marie Curie University that may have just given robots the skill they need to beat humans in that dystopian future when the robot uprising begins.

    These scientists have managed to create a new algorithm that lets robots keep working and “adapt to damage like natural animals,”




    http://qz.com/414283/scientists-have-created-robots-that-can-adapt-and-recover-like-an-animal-when-damaged/


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