From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:39 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: The coolest robotics company on the planet stops doing research;( Their tech has been really good, both software and and hardware wise... http://www.technologyreview.com/news/S11196/willow-garage-wont-do-research-anymore-but-itll-sell-you-a-robot/ But building robots is expensive, and apparently their backer wasn't quite as rich as hoped... They weren't doing AGI, but they were building the right sorts of robots and robot interface software for AGI... Their software will live on in the open source domain (e.g. the Robot Operating System, ROS. One thing I'd like to get done in the next year is to make ROS drivers for Hanson's robots...) ;/ ben Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1360759156</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8623750145</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>27</integer> <integer>7</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>276023</string> </dict> </plist> 1 EFTA_R1_01963738 EFTA02675684