e available right now. Compliance is a way of dealing withany obstacle. If you are feeling around in the dark, for example, and youencounter a brick wall, your arms compliance lets you stop pushing with out youconsciously thinking about it. Without compliance, Brooks says that cogs robotarm might knock a hole through our bellies.(Popular Mechanics) But with it cogsarm will be able to adapt to unexpected barriers.Cog is made of 16 Motorola 68332 chips, which are all together in an adjacentroom. He is also planned to receive 256 of these chips. Cogs brain, eventhought not modeled after a human one, will be able to handle multiple functionsat once. Although it has vast amounts of computing power, cog will beconsidered a great success if it reaches the intelligence level of a two-yearold child.Cog is just the first step in humanoid-robots, and AI. It has started a new eraof computers and their uses. Some day because of the work this kind of work, wemay be able to own house hold robots that could talk to us and carry on a normalconversation with us. This technology opens many doors that could leadanywhere....
