Yes, there was. The behaviors didn't just "emerge", they're coded into the robot.

The design of Philae was fine, it would have had enough power if the landing had gone as planned. The main thing they need to look at is why the attachment mechanism didn't work; fix that and there's no need for an RTG.

They might not be losing potential customers. Perhaps the market is just already saturated.

Probably because they're not sure the technology they have will get there. This sounds like an upgrade of the existing Blue Gene computer.

Medicine isn't related to science? Who knew.

I don't think the state of AI will be anywhere near human thought for a long time. But dealing with huge sets of data containing many, many variables is a reasonable application for "Machine Learning". Although I kind of wonder why a conventional statistical analysis wouldn't have revealed the major factors. Anyone who has served in the military would know that an older, more intelligent enlistee probably has other issues (else why are they where they are?).

I hope that was sarcasm. Unfortunately that bait and switch is all too common; create a source of revenue for a purpose that most people support (e.g. Highway Trust Fund) then switch what it's used for on the assumption that "the American people are too stupid to understand the difference" (tm - Jonathan Gruber) .

No need for that, just become a drombo for a few of the local monks

Second out of how many? There are thousands of successful space projects that use solar.

For the weight of an RTG they could have dropped several different probes onto the comet, all of which could have very large solar panels. The lander they have was as much weight as they could deliver; the only thing that failed was the mechanism to attach it.

Yea, when I read the part about "all its Windows Phone 8 devices broke today" I wondered how they managed to do that.

They'd probably crash. Although I suppose you could put some screens (preferably blue) to catch them.