And I would think, this is a game about a robot and a little girl.

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But this technique is slow because a robot must explore a great deal of terrain to know its precise location.

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This robot is about the size of a Mini Cooper and weighs some 900kg.

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It can do this because it is a bot, or software robot, a program that can interact with people.

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The general technique, which has been around for about 30 years, is called "patch clamping, " but this is the first time it has been fully automated through the assistance of a robot.

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At this stage, EcoBot II is a "proof-of-concept" robot and travels only at roughly 10 centimeters per hour.

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This brings us to our expectations of what a robot actually is.

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Yeah, this is kind of like that -- except that it's a freaking robot.

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To test whether this is the case, the researchers hope to load the code onto Golem Krang - a robot already developed by Mr Stillman's laboratory - to see if it works in action.

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So far, Dr Laschi's robot is not so much an octopus as a monopus, but she plans to correct this over the next two years by adding seven more arms and a control system that can co-ordinate them all.

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Of the 70, 000 prostate removals done this year, only 6, 000 or so used the new robot technology, but that is up threefold in a year, Intuitive estimates.

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