Wired have reported on a autonomous agent system, produced by Naveen Kuppuswamy of the KAIST robot labs, that can move between a number of hardware substrates including robots and PCs.The agent learns via genetic algorithms and has been constructed to be trained for loyalty and recognisable emotions. (More ….)
Science is reporting the development of a walking robot capable of reassessing its own physiology and adjusting its gait in response to damage (see also ScienceDaily, Scientific American and Physorg).
The research has been done at Cornell university by Hod Lipson and Victor Zykov.
Zykov was involved in an earlier demonstration of self-assembling and self-repairing robots called, MolecubesTM.
There is a video of the MolecubesTM in action on Zykov’s homepage.
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