Ben:Can you point to any single robot that has demonstrated the capability
to
learn a range of abilities and activities?
Fair enough. (Getting combative, huh?). Perhaps then the reason that the
"robotics revolution" has indeed started - and is perceived as such by major
scientific media - is that with Darpa robots have moved successfully into
the real world and more or less unstructured environments. Hey, I appreciate
you can make all kinds of comebacks on this, about how the robots are still
cheating and the environments are still pretty structured, and so on. But
the robots are actually out there - actually moving around the real world on
their own steam - and nobody was sure that could be done. And while I'd
concede - and actually this exchange is useful in helping define this -
that the key intellectual/cognitive steps haven't been taken, - robots
haven't started to move around freely, mentally - you don't want to argue
too much here, because we'll start getting into the enormous value of
working prototypes :).
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