Building the world’s most realistic robot
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> You look at biological systems and then you try and emulate it, and you end up thinking — and I’m not religious — but you end up thinking, ‘How the hell did this happen?‘
Considering that the project has taken several millions of years to complete and the budget was billions of sentient beings born and dead, (including several major extinction events), I am a bit disappointed by the result.
I’m not disappointed, I’m amazed. Amazed that over the course of several billion years these inanimate particles and structures have progressed to such a point that we can even ponder them and express our disappointment in them.
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Challenge: see if the result can carry a cup of coffee across a room without spilling it.
It's interesting how software has yet to match to the hardware. We could have had Johnny 5 like robots helping around a long time ago.