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Re: EEG

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Rich Cooper wrote:

> There is an article in Technology Review's web site
> on Mitsuo Kawato's project to build a robot as a way
> of learning how the brain functions.

Why bother with simulating the feeble brain of homo sapiens? Why not build
a better brain for robo sapiens? If USM doesn't, its enemies will.

Thus as Goldin, NASA Chief said in 2001, NASA-Ames IS working on HAL ...
and could have it as soon as 2011.

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  It includes three
> pages of descriptive text and a photo gallery of the
> robot he is using.
>
> He also seems to be using MRI scans to validate his
> guesses on how the brain performs similar tasks.
>
> The article is at
> http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/huang0105.asp
>
> Kawato is lobbying for a 30 year project at $500M
> per year to build a robot with the capabilities of a
> five year old child.  Sounds a bit unfundable, but the
> Japanese seem to have the patience for these very
> large long term projects, so who knows.
>
> Rich
>