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December 19, 2003
Qrio
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The latest humanoid robot (from Japan, of course) is named Qrio (pronounced 'queerio'? 'curio'?).
It's dancing isn't too good, and although the makers claim it can run, it runs as slowly as it walks, so no big advance there. It can through a ball pretty well, and that's amazing.
But - all of this kind of work is the same as the mechanical automata from a few hundred years ago in Germany and Switzerland - it's all mimicry and while it helps to understand movement, it doesn't seem to bring us any closer to a real intelligence.
Posted by mslaybau at December 19, 2003 10:58 PM