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Learning Robots

Posted by michael on from the maybe-not-such-a-good-idea dept.

carnun writes "The NewScientist is reporting on a new snakelike robot that uses genetic algorithms to change its motion pattern so that it can still function after sustaining damage." Roland Piquepaille sends in a report about another "learning" robot, named Adam, which is designed to seek out and feed from "flowers".

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  1. Self-repairing robots have been around for a while by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    A man by the name of Mark Tilden has been building 'unstoppable' robots for years out of regular components. He got his start building cheap, autonomous anti-land mine robots for the military that could have one leg blown off and still crawl around to find another.

    He also built $5 robots that crawled through mazes faster than anything MIT ever put together, pissing off the school's robotics department.

    Google for BEAM Robotics, and check out this interview:
    http://www.exhibitresearch.com/tilden/