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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Latest Job Taken By Robots: Lab Rat

Scientists at the ITAM technical institute in Mexico City have created a GIANT ROBOT LAB RAT using a Sony AIBO dog as the hardware platform that "thinks" and acts just like a real rat in standard laboratory experiments, such as a maze. The rat-bot "learned" how to navigate through a maze, and move through it differently and faster after learning.

Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmm!

... "thinks" and acts just like a real rat" ...

but only

... "differently and faster after learning" ...

Now, wouldn't that be an oxymoron? ;-)

Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:22:00 AM  

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