Swiss scientists applied Darwinian selection to their robots and found the electronic marmets are an Outer Limits episode waiting to happen. They exercise. They hunt. And when they work together for the good of the group they evolved into a better, bigger thing. A very good Outer Limits episode, for sure.
A Swiss team has applied Darwinian selection to robot development, producing robots that can walk, cooperate and even hunt each other.
“Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism,” say the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Lausanne researchers.
And so a tab we saved from long ago retroactively alters the robot debate. It now stands, @Rick_Snee – 1 to @Groonk – 1. Please see this article for clarification.
