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Tango0109 Mar 2018 11:20 a.m. PST

"The little robot finger's favorite color is blue. Wave a handful of blueberries in front of it and the finger will follow, transfixed. If you're wearing a blue shirt, congratulations, you're its new best friend. If you painted everything around it blue, the robo-digit could well have a heart attack.

You can program a robot to fall in love with a color easily enough. But this robot is thinking in a fundamentally different way—not with line after line of complicated code, but with simulated neurons.

"These neurons, each one may cause a little twitch in the muscle," says the robot's master, USC biomedical engineer Terry Sanger. "It can push the muscle left, right, up, and down. All the robot knows is when it sees blue things it wants to go toward blue things and avoid everything else."…"
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