The Last Place on Earth...

I've found an interesting article in the current popular science that plays on the idea of our first lecture topic, "the last place on earth". All of the unmanned space explorers are first tested on Earth first and there's a new one to add to the list. What makes this one so exciting? You'll have to read the article to find out! Here's the short of it though, this new robot designed to explore underwater caves on the Earth is one of the first fully autonomous robots that is able to cope with decision manking on it's own based on new self-awareness technology. The really interesting part of the article isn't the robot though, but the man who invented it. To find out more have a peek.