Robots are learning old skills in new ways but compute power and reliability may slow down progress. IF THERE IS A given in technology demonstrations it's that they go wrong. A visit by politicians to the Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in Paris seemed destined to follow the rule. In preparing the laboratory the night before, someone decided to polish the floor. For a robot that had learned to walk successfully, even with limbs missing, on the unpolished surface this could easily have been one change too far.
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