Bongard's study could change the way we develop robots

Bongard's study could change the way we develop robots. Traditionally robotics engineers have focused on fixed body types, changing behavior through programming. Bongard says that methods overlooks a key fact about natural development and evolution.”One thing that has been left out all this time is the obvious fact that in nature it's not that the replica Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Date watch animal's body stays fixed and its brain gets better over time,” he says, “in natural evolution animals bodies and brains are evolving together all the time.” A human infant, even if she knew how, couldn't walk: her bones and joints aren't up to the task until she starts to experience stress on the foot and ankle.

Perhaps the Japan-developed M3 Neony humanoid baby robot (seen above) is a step in the right direction?For robust robots, let them be babies first [Physorg]”Mom and gamer Winda Benedetti writes why she's not a big fan of Electronic Art's mom-centric Dead Space 2 marketing campaign.I have four words for Electronic Arts: Leave the moms replica Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso Date watch alone.That's right, I've got my mom jeans in a pinch thanks to the new “Your Mom Hates This” advertising campaign the company has launched to promote their forthcoming “Dead Space 2” game.”Dead Space 2” is the sequel to “Dead Space 1” and as the word “Dead” in the title may suggest, the game deals with death a lot - as in, it's a game in which players must fend off a seemingly endless horde of horribly mutated undead creatures hell-bent on stabbing, disemboweling and otherwise ripping them limb from limb.

To promote this horror game, it seems EA corralled a bunch of aging moms into a room and then showed them the most terrifying parts of the game (and there are a lot of those parts to choose from). They then captured the moms' shocked reactions and quivering facial expressions and have now turned it all into an advertisement and replica Jaeger LeCoultre Master Compressor Geographic associated website meant to pimp out the game.Yes, you too can watch as the moms cringe and say things like: “This game is an atrocity,” and “I think it'll make a person become insane!” A male announcer's voice then chimes in to tell us: “It's revolting. It's violent. It's everything you love in a game. And your mom's going to hate it.”