05 March 2007

Walking robot steps up the pace

"A humanoid robot is teaching itself to walk and eventually run around a California research lab.

Dexter took its first tentative steps only a few days after it first discovered how to stand upright.

Dexter's designers say their robot differs from commercially available predecessors because it can learn from its mistakes.

It is the culmination of six years' work by Anybots, an independent research group of three engineers."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6408727.stm

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