Tag: GeneticAlgorithms

Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda: "Robot Independence" segment from the "Life's Really Big Questions" broadcast.
Natural selection is at work in the artificial world, as robots learn to reproduce without us. December 19, 2000. (more)

TED Conference - Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware".
“Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that learn and evolve.”. March 10, 2008. (more)

Technology Review Documentary: Evolutionary Design.
Computers can provide design variations that no human would have imagined. September 2006. (more)