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Resilient Robot
Cornell robot discovers itself and adapts to injury
Duration: 00:04:16
Resilient Robot
Cornell robot discovers itself and adapts to injury
Nothing can possibly go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ...
The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like. If a robot is damaged or its environment changes unexpectedly, it can't adapt.
Cornell researchers have built a robot that works out its own model of itself and can revise the model to adapt to injury. First, it teaches itself to walk. Then, when damaged, it teaches itself to limp.
- Posted: March 28, 2007
- Tags: research, robotics, engineering
- From: College of Engineering
- Duration: 4:16
