Evolving Lego Mindstorms

John Conner writes "With a fairly simple routine, you can model evolution with Lego Mindstorms. In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate, evolve, and become extinct. Similar technology could be used in real applications for deployed robot optimization and automatic software updates. Now that physical robot replication is near, it's only a matter of time before... well... You'd better make robot friends while you can."

Comments

"robots were created that could mate"

[tcopeland]

Don't anthropomorphize robots... they hate that.

the obligatory addition of insult to injury

[SirSlud]

Now only do Lego nerds not get laid very often, but now their creations get laid more than they do!

(Dislciamer: I am a lego nerd, yes I do get laid, but as theonion.com helpfully points out, stereotypes are a real time saver.)

Robot creationists

[coffeecan]

Lets just hope that in a few thousand years religious robots don't try to ban robot evolution in robot schools in favor of seven day robot creationism. "In the begining The Geek created the robots and the earth ..."

Skynet

[Anonymous Coward]

Funny that the story about evolving robots was submitted by John Conner.

Re:Evolution is a myth !

[SirSlud]

> women came later

If they were anything like my exgirlfriend, they came much, much later!

In 2005, a milestone was reached

[Jugalator]

In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate

So, in 2005, geeks finally created AI that had abilities surpassing the abilities of the geeks themselves.