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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. NEWS FOR NERDS, indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is prime NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS

    Let me go back to jerking myself off now.

  2. Evolution has achieved more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually, the robot hasn't come anywhere close to the greatest achievement of 2 gazillion years of bird evolution: THE PENIS BIRD!!!!!!

  3. Re:Iraqi war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you actually think we care what some socialist, european thinks? Go take a shower eurobitch.