Machines Like Us

Robots are nothing new. Even bionics has become a bit passe. But imagine building a robot that can not only use sensory perception but also learn from its environment and adjust its actions to suit. Australian researchers are not just imagining it -- they are taking the first steps to create it, through a unique collaboration of scientific disciplines, universities and ideas.

The Thinking Systems Group was founded in March 2005, but it has only been in the past six months that work has really begun on its first project -- creating an autonomous robotic hand that uses sensory feedback to mimic the connection between our own hands and brain.

Read full story at The Sydney Morning Herald.