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[After Gutenberg] As a follow-up to Monkey Clutching Surrogates, I followed a pointer from Danny Ayers to a story by Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, about the relationship between his kids, him and the massively popular, robot vacuum cleaner, Roomba.

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[E. O. T. A. o. F. A.!] Happy Birthday!: If I've learned nothing else from a lifetime of reading science fiction, it's that hey, let's privatize the space industry! And if I've learned two things, the other would be to make sure your artificial intelligence is reliable before you put it in a robot that has the capacity to KILL PEOPLE! I mean, load it into a freakin' Roomba for testing purposes before you skip straight to ten-foot-tall knife monsters! Is that so hard?

Keaggy.comhttp://keaggy.com [Keaggy.com] / keaggy.com :: Robot Pirate Monkey /: Bob Dorsey steps up and delivers a kick-ass Kochalka cover (link to MP3). Make and send yours now and win fabulous prizes! I'm setting a deadline of July 4, 2005 for all entries, because I think there's a decent chance a few of you out there will get drunk on the 4th of July and record themselves singing James Kochalka's "Monkey Vs.

Bigblog.com[Bigblog.com] Search: Robotic vacuum cleaner Roomba has new sibling @ Big Blog: Roomba, the vacuum cleaner that created a market for robot housecleaning appliances, has a new sibling. It's called Scooba, and it mops.

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[Jcwinnie.biz] After Gutenberg: Another site, the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory in the Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, also is engaged in research in cooperative robotics and distributed artificial intelligence. What is important to note is that while multiple entities (such as robots or agents) could “integrate perception, reasoning, and action to perform cooperative tasks under circumstances that are insufficiently known in advance, and dynamically changing during task execution”, they need not be identical. Rather different entities or groups could have distinct purposes as occurs among insects.

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