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R Daneel: the robot that picks itself back up again: "

We’re pretty sure the last thing any robot-humanoid researcher wants to do fifteen times a day is pick up and
reorient a 150 pound machine every time it falls, but the R. Daneel Study 1 (whose name is not only an Asimov
reference, but means Responsive Dexterous Actions aNd Embodiment ELucidation) developed by the University of Tokyo is
officially in the running for our robot of the year award. Long gone are the days when you could disable a robot by
pushing it on its back like a turtle—looks like we’ll have to come up with a new weakness to exploit in the
future.



[Via New Scientist]

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