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| Lucy MkI's body was such a pile of junk that it was difficult to make much more progress with the theoretical work - it's hard to be intelligent when you can't see, feel or hear very well. In 1999 the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts awarded me a Dream Time fellowship, which gave me a year in which to build a new body for Lucy. This was a fantastic opportunity and I suddenly had the resources to buy some proper tools at last - a lathe, a small CAD-CAM machine, even a better soldering iron! Unfortunately, solving the problem of giving Lucy decent, biologically realistic muscles turned out to be more of a nightmare than I'd hoped. This, combined with a lot of bugs in the very expensive CAD software I'd bought for designing her many circuit boards, meant that the end of the year came and went far too soon. At present (May 2004) Lucy is still only part-built and the project is on hold for a few months while we do some commercial work to raise money. Watch this space for more information as soon as the project is back online...
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