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From: chrisley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Ron Chrisley)
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Date: 10 Sep 90 21:47:09 GMT
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In <1990Sep9.213220.20613@athena.mit.edu> jemcnult@athena.mit.edu (John E. Mcnulty) writes:


>A friend recently told me about a robot that learned to walk using 
>neural networks but, alas, he could not remember who did the experiment
>or where.  First I would like to know whether anyone knows anything 
>about that experiment

The work you are referring to was conducted at your own institution, by
Pattie Maes and Rodney Brooks.  The robot's name is Ghengis.

>and second, I am generally interested in neural nets
>as applied to control and behaviour generation in autonomous robots.

I have an interest in this as well...  I will send you some email about it.


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