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.
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Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware"
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Posted on: January 5, 2008 10:00 PM, by Greg Laden
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