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Resilient Robots
Self-aware machines are able to assess injuries and make adjustments
Source: "Resilient Machines through Continuous Self-Modeling"
Josh Bongard et al.
Science 314: 1118-1121
Results: By constantly monitoring its own structure, a four-legged robot built by Josh Bongard, a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont, and colleagues at Cornell University can tell if it has damaged or lost a limb and adapt its gait accordingly.
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