Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence"A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs".--Kirkus Reviews. |
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Page 73
... tiny robot arms and equally tiny computers to control them . These would be small enough to grab individual molecules and hold them , thermally wriggling , in place . The protein robots could then be used as machine tools to build a ...
... tiny robot arms and equally tiny computers to control them . These would be small enough to grab individual molecules and hold them , thermally wriggling , in place . The protein robots could then be used as machine tools to build a ...
Page 77
... tiny areas of electric charge on its glass face . A sweeping electron beam could both sense and alter the contents of each area . In others , thousands of bits were encoded as a recirculating stream of acoustic pulses that traveled down ...
... tiny areas of electric charge on its glass face . A sweeping electron beam could both sense and alter the contents of each area . In others , thousands of bits were encoded as a recirculating stream of acoustic pulses that traveled down ...
Page 78
... tiny pulse appeared on this wire . Magnetic core memories holding thousands and eventually millions of numbers were the main form of computer working storage for over twenty years , until they were overtaken in the mid 1970s by storage ...
... tiny pulse appeared on this wire . Magnetic core memories holding thousands and eventually millions of numbers were the main form of computer working storage for over twenty years , until they were overtaken in the mid 1970s by storage ...
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