AI Robot Rebuilds Itself to Adapt to Damage

A newly designed robot can sense and recover from unexpected damage, an ability that is sure to prove handy in dangerous terrain. Referred to as Starfish, the new four-legged robot creates a model of itself and revises that model to respond and adapt to injury by synthesizing new behaviors.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15752276/

 

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A similar example:

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=59039
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The Robot Chair.

 

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Self-replicating robots: ever heard of?

These are ultimate self-rebuilding robots.

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(http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/selfrep.ws.html)

 

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That's a pretty cool video, Draqon. Now they just need some useful tools and algorithms for constructing useful forms.

As it is, it looks like one hell of a trip toy. Put under your sister's sheets to freak her out.

 

i dont have a sister.

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Anyways thatll be one of an algorithm to design...