"Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot

jerkychew writes "This is either really cool or really scary, depending on how you look at it. According to this article, scientists in England have been experimenting with so-called 'living robots' that think and act for themselves. During an exercise that pitted the machines against each other in battle, one of the machines, named Gaak, was taken out of the competition and left alone for fifteen minutes. When the scientist returned to retrieve Gaak, he found that the machine had broken free from its 'cage', and made it all the way to the lab's parking lot before it was apprehended! Can the T-1000 be far behind?" Update: 06/20 20:36 GMT by T : Thanks to skywalker404, who points out the Magna site and Professor Noel Sharkey's web page.

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put in place because people were afraid of robots.

[autopr0n]

Remember, Asimov's laws were put in place because people in his world were deathly afraid of robots.

These days, no one is scared of 'robots' except for wackjob 'futurists' like Bill Joy. So no laws are needed.

Re:It IS learning...

[JippyNickers]

I think you've got some way to go on your OO concepts... and jokes.

Ooops, my mistake. I didn't know you had to be an asshole to be funny.

Sheesh. British folk.

=-Jippy

Thats the English

[Entaundo]

Thats the English for ya! I'd be embrassed, smart enough to build a robot and not smart enough to build a 'cage' to hold it! BY the way get a new police car siren damn it sucks!