Name: Building "self-aware" robots
Uploaded: 2007-10-11T02:57:00Z
Duration: 6 min 4 s
Description: Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.

Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate.

Building "self-aware" robots

For decades, robots have been promised as our future helpers, yet machine intelligence still lags behind nature. By allowing robots to evolve, experiment, and even self-replicate, engineers have created machines that learn to move and develop a sense of self. One robot, given no knowledge of its own body, figured out its shape and learned to walk. These surprising breakthroughs suggest that evolution and learning, not manual design, may hold the key to smarter machines.

Letting Robots Evolve Unlocks True Machine Intelligence

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