Comment More on research with videos (Score 3, Informative) 142
You can read more about this research and see some videos of the robots in action here.
There's a movie teaser line that you may have seen recently, that goes like this: "What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?" The answer is "I'd try." The teaser's actually for another movie, but that's the story that's told in the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth": it starts with a man who, after talking with scientists and senators, can't get anyone to listen to what he thinks is the most important thing in the world. It comes out on DVD today.
"Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments