InfoCompanions » Math Biology http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 “Self Aware” Robots http://www.infocompanions.com/self-aware-robots/ http://www.infocompanions.com/self-aware-robots/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:00:00 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/?p=67 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.

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About Hod Lipson:
To say that Hod Lipson and his team at Cornell build robots is not completely accurate: They may simply set out a pile of virtual robot parts, devise some rules for assembly, and see what the parts build themselves into. They’ve created robots that decide for themselves how they want to walk; robots that develop a sense of what they look like; even robots that can, through trial and error, construct other robots just like themselves.

Working across disciplines — physics, computer science, math, biology and several flavors of engineer — the team studies techniques for self-assembly and evolution that have great implications for fields such as micro-manufacturing — allowing tiny pieces to assemble themselves at scales heretofore impossible — and extreme custom manufacturing (in other words, 3-D printers for the home).

His lab’s Outreach page is a funhouse of tools and instructions, including the amazing Golem @ Home — a self-assembling virtual robot who lives in your screensaver.

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