One Step Closer to AI?

[IceBlade]

Scientists said on Thursday they created a brainy, four-legged robot resembling a starfish that can sense damage to its body and, on its own, think up a way to recover.
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Lipson said the robot used various movements of its joints, first to generate hypotheses and then to formulate an accurate conception of itself.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0...ence_robot_col

[Hermes]

holy shit I really wish i never saw that movie I robot...