I Went to Study Artificial Intelligence. I Ended Up Studying Artificial Life.
One of these fields asks how to make a machine that thinks. The other asks a much weirder question.
Knowledge pills
Robotics Is Not What You Think It Is
I spent a year inside the UK's largest robotics lab. Almost nothing in it looked like a robot.
Resources
paper project project
Row-bot: the robot that gets its energy from dirty water
phys.org
The Right Trousers: Wearable Soft Robotics for Independent Living
therighttrousers.com
Alter3: an android whose motion is not pre-programmed
alternativemachine.co.jp
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