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[Techknowtimes.com] TechKnow Times: In an experiment called the Aibo Playground Project, Oudeyer and Kaplan placed the robotic pups in a child’s activity-pen and left them to investigate. They found that the robots learned progressively, initially just moving their limbs in an uncoordinated manner, before tentatively exploring their surroundings and biting nearby soft toys.

[Aaai.org] AI in the news: "Police officers test-drove a stealthy chariot that can chase down suspects without a drop of gas and gave voice commands to a patrol car with artificial intelligence at the Police Security Expo on Tuesday at the Convention Center. The [Info-Cop] company's Project 54 makes police cars a little bit more like KITT, the talking, thinking car from the '80s TV show 'Knight Rider.' Instead of fumbling with sirens, lights and other controls or combing hundreds of radio frequencies, the officer can keep his eyes on the road and simply tell the car what to do, said William Lenharth, the project director and a professor at the University of New Hampshire.

 [Bluelemur.com] The Machine Stops: Also that there is a Japanese word for the beauty of objects that show signs of age and wear””a teacup with its enamel worn by generations of contemplative sipping, for instance, or a book showing the signs of gentle handling by many readers. Even if these excellent words don’t actually exist, they should, and judging by the little traditional Japanese art I’ve seen””mostly Hiroshige prints””Japan is the place to invent them.

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