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A Robot Learns To Fly

Posted by timothy on from the flap-flap dept.

jerkychew writes: "For those of you that read my last post about the robot escaping its captors, there's more news regarding robots and AI. According to this Reuters article, scientists in Sweden created a robot that essentially 'learned to fly' in just three hours. The robot had no preprogrammed instructions on how to achieve lift, it had to deduce everything through trial and error. Very interesting stuff."

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  1. T2 by ScannerBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    August 16th, 2002 8:24am Skynet Goes online.



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  2. Re:Genetic Algorithms? Anybody? by CompVisGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been assured this is true for most things -- don't believe everything you read.

    I'm not a GA researcher, so I'm sure there's at least one error in my posts on this topic.

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    "The noble art of losing face will one day save the human race"---Hans Blix
  3. How they're going to market it by drew_kime · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    So they built a robot, gave it sensors, then said, which works best, this? how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?how about this?
    [Commercial] Are you flying now? Good. [/commercial]
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  4. trial and error? by briancnorton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when one is flying, isnt an error a crash?

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    People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.

  5. Re:Impressive, but... by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's because you are ignorant, gullible dipshits that don't have enough initiative to question the preacher.

    Furthermore, your sig and post are in quandry.

    And get that thing out of your sister's mouth.