Over at BBC, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy has examined what he’s calling the world’s first anthropomimetic robot–a robot that mimics in extremely high anatomical detail the movements and construction of the human body. The robot, named ECCEROBOT, possesses artificial analogs of human bones, muscles, and tendons that endow it with human-like motions and–perhaps someday–will imbue it with human-like intelligence.
via Popular Science

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