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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

MIT's Mini Cheetah Robot Has Happy Flapping Head

For MIT's Mini Cheetah robot, the head is not a strictly required accessory. Instead, to give the lightweight and low cost ambulatory machine some character, the researchers attached a cartoon tiger's head to the little robot. The effect is right on the border between the comically bad plateau and a horrifying descent into the uncanny valley. I mean, just look at this thing. Look at how its head flops.

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