|(Folks from the media, look here for more info) Q: What does
Cog stand for? A: It doesn't actually stand for anything. It's a
play on the term "cognition" and a mechanical cog. Try finding
something that clever in a baby book. Q: Is Cog a boy or a girl?
A: No. The robot has no gender, and we try to use the pronoun
"it" whenever it comes up. We also carefully construct our
sentences to avoid third person references. Q: Is Cog right or
left-handed? A: The arms are completely symmetric, and (as of
yet) the robot has no preference for one or the other. If the
videos show Cog using one arm or the other, that's simply
because that arm was less likely to reach anything it could
damage. Q: Are you ever worried that your robot might get "too
intelligent" or "too powerful"? A: No -- we have programmed the
robot to spare our lives in the event that it ever attempts to
organize its brethren in a bloody revolution against the human
race. JUST KIDDING! The truth is that our lab focuses on
building robots that are as human