[extropy-chat] walk this way

[Adrian Tymes]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> This is so wicked cool:
> 
>
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/02/17/robot.toddlers.ap/index.html
> 
> They are actually reporting two breakthroughs here,
> which
> causes me to suspect either the press has goofed the
> story
> or that something else is wrong with it.  They are
> reporting
> that they have discovered a far more efficient way
> for
> robots to walk using springs (which is believable
> and 
> exciting) and that the device itself learns (which
> is
> exciting as hell, but dubious).

Actually, devices that (kind of) learn have been with
us for a while.  Maybe the press involved are already
starting to become jaded with the number of devices
that have been brought out with that label (regardless
of how true or false the label is)?