Re: robot race

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:11:41 +0200, Borek
<borek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/08/robot.race.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
>
>So they did it this time...

Yep. None completed the course last year. Now five did - and
in pretty much the same amount of time. Next year ...

This is evolving very QUICKLY.

No doubt each team used a different approach to the problem(s).
Interesting that five of them all performed about the same.
I hope there's more information about HOW they programmed the
'bots. Could be that there are multiple paths to this kind of
'intelligence' - all just as good as the other. An analogy
perhaps as to what we might expect if we meet intelligences
from other worlds - or build our own. Like us - but NOT ...

How long until self-driving civvie automobiles are a practical
reality. A lot of civvies couldn't have driven that desert
test course as is.

Now whistle for a Johnny-Cab ...

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