The two built on previous research by University of California, Berkeley professor Robert Full on how cockroaches move across surfaces, and who in the late 1980s built a new eight - legged robot that moved faster and more
easily than any robot built to date.
Not exact matches
At $ 22,000 each — less
than the price of a minivan — it could
easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per
robot.
Again, it says more about us as humans
than it does about
robots: how
easily we are deceived and deceive, and how our primal instincts of desire make us stupid.
The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall
robot was much larger
than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a
robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as
easily as a life - size mechanical arm.
Some
robots were tougher
than others requiring four or five facts about attendees, while most were
easily dispatched with one or two details about conference attendees.