http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0008/30_robot.html
Wednesday, August 30, 2000
Computer makes robot offspring
By MATTHEW FORDAHL-- The Associated Press
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A computer programmed to follow the rules of evolution
has for the first time designed and manufactured
simple robots with minimal help from people.
...
The computer that evolved the designs was told only
what parts it would be working with, that its goal was
locomotion and the physics of the environment in which
its offspring would be moving.
...
"Down the road, if we could have a thing like this in
space, you could send the building blocks and let them
evolve themselves," said Yoseph Bar-Cohen, director of
a robotics lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"That would be fascinating."
"
I also posted a story at TransDot about it, at
http://www.transhuman.memetree.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/31/0123259
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