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"We have created the first example of an engineering material that can simultaneously sense, think and act upon mechanical stress without requiring additional circuits to process such signals," Harne said. "The soft polymer material acts like a brain that can receive digital strings of information that are then processed, resulting in new sequences of digital information that can control reactions."

[sciencedaily.com]

FvckY0u 8 Sep 4
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That sounds like a major step in the direction of humanoid robotics. An awareness boost to that would allow for multiple facets of input to help with many situations.

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Boolean logic (rules based) decision making in a Bayesian universe? 😉

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