Aug 022011
 
One Flies Like a Bird, Another Teaches Itself:  Giving Fire to Our Proto-Descendants

Above, dude with a Terminator accent and his team at the Bionic Learning Network (how perfect is that?) built an ultralight robotic bird – it flies at a similar weight and with many of the movement and aerodynamic faculties of a seagull.  His team let it fly around in a TED (VIDEO) presentation hall – which was pretty awesome.  DARPA will certainly come calling soon… [VIA SINGULARITY HUB] Below,  Tokyo Institute of Technology’s SOINN (Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network) robot is all kinds of learning how to serve stuff to humans (we appreciate the classy coasters).  It’s, you know, incremental – [read full post]