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Day trip from home: Steve Grand takes Lucy to his lecture

On a good day, Lucy can tell a banana apart from an apple.

And that’s handy skill to have if you are an orang-utan. Even a robotic one.

It might not sound like much to a too-clever-to-know-it human like you or me, but it represents pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence.

And it is all down to one man working alone for years – in his garage – because his mind is fired up by the power of the brain.

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