30th August 2007, 11:05 PM
Well much more complicated robots using chemical exposure and neuron reaction in a complicated net with no "core", but yes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)