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          | Description: 
             This humanoid robot retains 
            better control of the drum sticks by slowing them slightly just before 
            impact, a principal that humans learn instinctively. |   
          | Source: 
             University of Southern California |   
          | Story:  Robots 
            learn soft touch TRN February 28, 2001
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          | TRN Categories: 
             Chaotic Systems, Fuzzy Logic 
            and Probabilistic Reasoning; Robotics |   
          | Form: 
             Still |  |