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CHEATING FLOCKS. "His competitors were building their own mechanical flocks but Vicsek says that most of the reported successes have cheated in critical ways. Some, for example, could only fly indoors. Others communicated with a central supercomputer that did all their processing for them and gave them precise flight commands." http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/27/a-bird-like-flock-of-autonomous-drones/ View in LinkedIn

CELL MIGRATION. “Collective migration is a type of cell movement wherein groups of cells move together as a coherent unit. Collective migration is involved in multiple aspects of development across many organisms. Different forms of collective migration are observed in many biological processes such as gastrulation, tubulogenesis, neural crest migration and wound healing. Cancer cells can also spread via collective migration in the form of cellular streams.” https://lnkd.in/dz4nHjA View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE COMPUTER. "The machine acts according to its programming, but it also chooses what to do on the basis of something — knowledge, experience or a combination of the two — that its programmers cannot predict or fully explain." http://www.nature.com/news/digital-intuition-1.19230 View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL INTUITION. "Intuition is a very human skill, or so we like to think. Or, more accurately, so we liked to think. In what could prove to be a landmark moment for artificial intelligence, scientists announce this week that they have created an intuitive computer." https://lnkd.in/dcrukYa View in LinkedIn

BOT COMMON SENSE. "Researchers program robots to see if they can learn a very human trait: common sense....It should not rely on a human programmer once it is purchased. It must be trainable." https://lnkd.in/dPApY8e View in LinkedIn

BOT FLIGHT IN HOURS. "Krister Wolff and Peter Nordin of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, built a winged robot and set about testing whether it could learn to fly by itself, without any pre-programmed data on what flapping is or how to do it." https://lnkd.in/dewfVH9 View in LinkedIn

BIRD FLIGHT CRACKED. "Learning how to fly took nature millions of years of trial and error – but a winged robot has cracked it in only a few hours, using the same evolutionary principles." https://lnkd.in/dewfVH9 View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT TRIAL AND ERROR in robots allows them to recover from damage very rapidly. An impressive video. http://www.kurzweilai.net/emulating-animals-these-robots-can-recover-from-damage-in-two-minutes View in LinkedIn

DAMAGE ADAPTATION. "Robots learn to adapt to damage the way animals do. One six-legged walking robot ranked 13,000 styles of walking based on their effectiveness. Once damaged, the robot was able to begin testing the walking styles it predicted to be most effective, slowly ruling out options until it arrived at the best choice. The team was able to get their six-legged robot to walk well again in only a few minutes after two of its six legs were broken." https://lnkd.in/dkDqfpK View in LinkedIn