Science Philanthropist, Jeffrey Epstein, Backs the First Free Thinking Robots Robots are quickly evolving from direction driven machines to free thinking, non-deterministic humanoids, thanks to an ingenious group of artificial intelligence scientists front Hong Kong and Texas; and to the funding of a prominent New York science investor, called Jeffrey Epstein. For a long time, robots looked largely like clunky machines that relied on deterministic algorithmic pathways. Over the last decade however. Hanson Robotics, based in Richardson, Texas, has revolutionized the appearance of robots with responsive facial expressions, synthetized rubber skin, called frubber and delicate features. Collaborator, Mark Tilden, creator of BEAM robotics and the WowWee Robosapien humanoid robot, has also produced complex robotic movements from analog logic circuits, discrete electronic components, and usually without a microprocessor. And to fill their heads, artificial intelligence group, OpenCog has stepped in to give these humanoid sculptures, a brain. Based in Hong Kong, OpenCog, an open source AI programming group, under the direction of Ben Goertzel, began their cerebral project with a Hanson Robokind: a toddler like robot. The challenge is to take the basic intelligence of virtual avatars programmed for the screen, and transfer that to a robotic structure. To do this however, a robot must have the capacity to perceive and interpret the outside world. To a large extent, OpenCog's virtual characters have that capacity: for example, each character has a database called an AtomSpacc where thousands of 'atoms' exist as knowledge concepts such as objects, actions and feelings (anger, fear, happiness). Every time a character spatially encounters objects or concepts in its environment, a new atom is duplicated in that character's Atomspace. Associations arc also recorded as a character moves front one concept to another. Upon repetition, associative links get stronger,