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Droid armies just 10 years away!
The squat, four-wheeled Robot driving itself through densely wooded terrain looks too macho to be cute, but it's too small to be threatening (picture a cross between R2-D2 and a Jeep). "You start to associate personalities with each of them," says Mark Del Giorno, of his 'bots. But still, Del Giorno, the vice president for engineering at General Dynamics Robotic Systems, which built this machine for the Army, insists that he doesn't anthropomorphize his robots: "You realize that the âpersonality' comes from, say, the steering being a little loose. I guess I'm too close to the code to think of them as people."Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-01-11 |
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