More Evolution in Robotics
When the "New AI" in the eighties began to give robots a physicality to interact with the world and also to develop intelligence, this was a paradigm shift. Meanwhile populate numerous prototypes, the AI labs in the world. The big breakthrough has not been forthcoming. The key to a new robotics is the ability to adapt, "a problem to solve, even if the rules change in between," now the AI researcher Josh Bongard said in an interview with Technology Review. "So we try first of all to create robots that can adapt."
The scientists at the University of Vermont is one of the leaders of evolutionary robotics, which wants to learn from biology. "Evolution has produced a large number of adaptive machines - biological organisms," says Bongard. His team are already being made to construct a four-legged robot that can reprogram its own autonomous locomotion, when one of the legs is removed. "The only limitation here is the available computing power," says Bongard.
Now he is working on machines that can change their shape. Condition is, not transformable robot from start to complex - with arms, legs and sensors - to create, so Bongard. He is convinced: "If these robots learn, what they should do, they develop the necessary limbs of itself" For now there are more than Bongards evolutionary robot simulation.
That science, with the creation of such artificial animal crosses a border, the AI researchers believe not, "Robotics brings us then, now, to recognize that we humans - with all the other animals - are simple biological machines." Bongard is confident that new intelligent machines will not be a menace to society. On the contrary: "In the end they will produce more jobs than they destroy," promises Bongard.
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