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Learning Robots

carnun writes "The NewScientist is reporting on a new snakelike robot that uses genetic algorithms to change its motion pattern so that it can still function after sustaining damage." Roland Piquepaille sends in a report about another "learning" robot, named Adam, which is designed to seek out and feed from "flowers".

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  1. Oh yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our new robot overlords. I'd like to remind them as a trusted first poster, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground flower caves.

  2. All well and good but... by PrImED73 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What else is it going to be able to do apart from still be able to wriggle around after an injury?
    sounds like a SCO lawyer.

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  3. Re:Yea but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Probably.

    However, apparently you can't.

  4. Re:but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's how I taught my mail-order wife. Maybe I should have gotten one programmed in english.

    Just use a mod chip.

  5. morons advise against following MiSinformation.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    spewed forth .constaNTly buy the greed/fear based payper liesense stock markup scam walking dead.

    that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean this cesspool of greed/fear execrable up.

    we're calling it the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiatve).

    the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.

    what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.

    fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right? .asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.

    back on task.

    what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?

    you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.

    they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.

    of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.

    that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.

    communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.

    you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.

    meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.

    don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.

    the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls

  6. Re:morons advise against following MiSinformation. by Starlet+Monroe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...walking, talking proof that fluoride kills brain cells...

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  7. SCREAMERS? by Tei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Screamers for free, $1 each.

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  8. Re:Worms by uberdave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because a comment gets modded up initially, doesn't mean that it will keep that +5. Comments get modded down all the time.