AstroBebop » robots http://www.astrobebop.com/blog Videos on space exploration, space tourism, robotics, astronomy, astrophotography, and aeronautics. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:57:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Hod Lipson: Robots that are “self-aware” http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/hod-lipson-robots-that-are-self-aware/ http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/2009/hod-lipson-robots-that-are-self-aware/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:12:22 +0000 flyingeraser http://www.astrobebop.com/blog/?p=399 Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.

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