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It may look like it has
a head studying the
ground beneath it,
but this four-legged
robot has no visual
sensing. It scampers
nimbly over uneven
terrain, in part because
its artificial intelligence
responds to complex
signals sent by air
pressure pads on its
feet. “It relies on touch
to see an obstacle,”
says Ashish Kumar, an
engineering graduate
student at the Uni-
versity of California,
Berkeley. Here Kumar
prods the robot, built
as a collaboration
among scientists at
Berkeley, Facebook,
and Carnegie Mellon
University.
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