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Robots evolve to deceive one another
Posted by Ed Yong on August 17, 2009
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In a Swiss laboratory, a group of ten robots is competing for food. Prowling around a small arena, the machines are part of an innovative study looking at the evolution of communication, from engineers Sara Mitri and Dario Floreano and evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller. They programmed robots with the task of finding a “food source”…
Orang-utans use leaves to lie about their size
Posted by Ed Yong on August 4, 2009 You’ll sometimes hear people lowering their voices to make themselves sound tougher or more commanding. We’re not the only ones – it seems that our close relatives, the orang-utans, pull the same trick, and they use tools to do it. Madeleine Hardus from the University of Utrecht has found preliminary evidence that young orang-utans use…