Using robots to test evolutionary hypothesis. This is the main purpose of John Long's research. In his laboratory, he and his colleagues build robots with essential bio-realistic animal features, like the ability to behave autonomously. We interviewed him before his lecture at the Festival della Scienza in Genoa.
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Europe’s Freedom of Research: €100 Billion for ReBrain Europe
A European programme could attract a counter-exodus of scientific talent from the United States, revitalising our research institutions.
In the 1930s, the disastrous Nazi-fascist policies induced an unprecedented exodus of at least 15,000 intellectuals - scientists and artists, Jews and non-Jews - to the United States. See. e.g., the historical accounts in Adorno, Fleming, & Bailyn: The Intellectual Migration.
