We already know that robots can be smarter than us as evidenced by Watson beating [Ken Jennings] at Jeopardy, or Deep Blue beating [Garry Kasparov] at chess. Now [E024576] is striving to build a bot to compete at physical games. For the challenge, he's chosen one of the games from a television game show called Minute to Win It. This challenge is called Mad Dog, and lends its name to this robot. … [Read more...]