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Robot Uses Glue Gun to Make Tools, Hopes to Ace Survival Skills 101

Posted May 20, 2012 2:53 PM

From Engadget:

Looking through Engadget's annals of robotic achievements, we see droids juggling, dabbling in competitive sailing and even manning prisons. Cool as they are, those functions aren't going to mean a thing when Mr. Automaton is lost in the wilderness, damaged and without a helping human hand in sight. Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfigurable" device that packs a glue gun for creating the tools it needs on the fly.

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05/20/2012 10:11 PM

See, this is how we tell the difference between robots and humans. A guy would have used duct tape, a woman would have hired someone off Angie's List.

Who needs a Turing Test?

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