Researchers have created a “mom” robot that independently reproduces “children,” passing beneficial features along to the next generation.
The experiment was carried out at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with ETH Zurich, and the results were published today in the journal PLOS One. A mother bot (a big robotic arm) designed, built, and tested “generations” of ten “kids”: tiny, cube-shaped bots. The mother used what it observed in each experiment to churn out even better-performing offspring the next go-around.
via Gizmodo
