Almost Human: Making Robots Think.ALMOST HUMAN: Making Robots Think LEE GUTKIND At Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). , enthusiastic engineers and software designers are creating robots that may someday aid or even replace people in various capacities. Gutkind spent 6 years observing these researchers and their creations, which include devices as seeming frivolous as robot dogs scooting scooting a form of behavior limited largely to dogs. Sliding along on the ground while sitting on the perineal area and with the hindlimbs extended forwards. Caused usually by irritation in the perineal area, chiefly anal sac irritation. around in the RoboCup soccer competition and as serious as machines in a Defense Department program to create driverless vehicles. Gutkind, editor of the journal Creative Nonfiction Creative nonfiction (sometimes known as literary nonfiction) is a type of writing which uses literary skills in the writing of nonfiction. A work of creative nonfiction, if well-written, contains accurate and well-researched information, holds the interest of the reader, and , also accompanied the roboticists to one of the most barren places on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert. In this Marslike environment, a Carnegie Mellon team put the robot Zoe through its paces for NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. . The machine or one like it may someday search for life on the Red Planet and elsewhere. W.W. Norton, 2006, 284 p., hardcover, $25.95. |
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