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PALEONEWS: Electronic wizardry will bring dinosaurs back to life
Electronic wizardry will bring dinosaurs back to life
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991125/18/bqjr.html
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The designers want each 3.5-metre-long, 80-kilogram robotic iguanodon to
be autonomous, making its own decisions about where to go and what to
do. It will approach inquisitive isitors, stare at them, and even rear
up on its back legs to browse on the nearest potted palm tree. "Usually
you have to walk to museum exhibits. In this case the exhibit walks o
you," says designer Vassilios Papantoniou, who works for the European
Association for Research in Legged Robots in Lamia, Greece.
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