Economy is the auntie of invention, and researchers are looking into creating simpler, cheaper robots. SIMPLICITY provides the focus for a new generation of electronic robots as researchers try to work out how little they can get away with in terms of sensors. At the Artificial Life XI conference in Winchester, UK, last month, engineers from Roke Manor Research demonstrated Dora, a robot that dispenses with expensive - albeit accurate -laser sensors and makes do with a single camera. Developed by Estelle Tidey of Roke, Dora has to work out where obstacles are by moving around the room.
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