Robots are learning how to limp like animals | The Verge

by Adriana Hamacher

28 May 2015

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Robots somehow seem most lifelike when they’re not working quite right. Watching a spidery mechanical creature struggle to keep going after losing a limb feels like watching a wounded animal, with…

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Adriana Hamacher Associate Editor at Robohub and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network and a contributor to Economist Insights

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