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"The idea I want to push next is that the United States should make Siberia a Protectorate. Pay the Russians off – a hundred, two hundred billion dollars – and simply run Siberia in an ecologically responsible way."
- Gregory Benford
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| Learning Robot | ||
| A robot that learns from its own experiences. |
| Technovelgy from Callahan and the Wheelies,
by Stephen Barr. Published by Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1960 Additional resources -
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- Robot Learns To Smile
- DiGORO Robot Learns By Watching Humans
- Robots Learn Language Via Random Syllabic Babble
- Baxter Robot Learns From Fellow Workers
- Robot Teaches Itself To Walk
| RoboBallet The Dance Of Cooperative Robots |
| Does CloneRobotics Offer A True Android? |
| Robots Repair And Modify Themselves |
| Robot Janitors Get To Work |
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