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Cog was a humanoid robot designed by Rodney Brooks's group at MIT as a platform to study robot cognition. It could track faces, grasp objects, and, perhaps most famously, play with a Slinky.
The name "Cog" is a play on the term "cognition" and a mechanical cog. |
Cog is now retired, residing inside a glass box at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass. |
Rodney Brooks has said the main inspiration for building Cog was HAL from the movie "2001." |