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For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First

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University of Vermont robotics expert Josh Bongard built this simple robot from Legos as proof of a complex idea, one that's teaching us about the interaction between brain and body.
<p>Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. Or at least that’s not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard has discovered, as he reports in the January 10 online edition of the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em>.</p>

A Cut Above

<p>The Jericho Research Forest, a 492-acre tract of former farmland ¶¶Òõ̽̽ acquired in 1941 and uses for teaching and research, will have an important new job this November, when the renovated George D. Aiken Center, home of the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, officially opens its doors.</p>

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