'Thinking' robot in escape bid

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Check this out....

Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves today said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives".

The robot apparently forced its way out of the small make-shift paddock it was being kept in, travelled down an access slope, through the front door of the centre and was eventually discovered at the main entrance to the car park when a visitor nearly flattened it with his car.

Number 5 is alive!!!!!

[rm']

Freaky-deaky.... raises all kinds of unsettling ethical questions.

[Mr Jones]

Oh fuck, that's not far from where I live.

It's "Rise of the robots " come true, run for the hills...............

[eleet-2k2]

Sweet! This reminds me of Revolver or that other one with the 6 foot tall robot, cant remeber the name.

[Gonzotek]

What I'd really like to see is how a sizeable population of these "auto-intelligent" bots would do. For instance, a lot of people know about the guy who has been building small robots to act like frogs by making ultra-sonic noises and finding each other based on that. What if we took it several steps further: introduce food, reproduction, and elimination factors. Like certain parts of the population's living area are designated as food; two robots can "mate" by remaining together, undisturbed, for a set period of time (possibly under certain other conditions, such as day vs. night); and certain bots are designated as predators which can eliminate other predators as well as non-predator bots. When a "mating" is successful, a new bot is then placed near the location it was conceived at; when a predator makes a "kill", that robot is removed from the population, AND the predator gets an energy boost.

Hmmm....this could be a GREAT sim game.

-=Gonzotek=-

[rm']

Try out Conway's Game of Life. You can find various online versions of it at Yahoo's Games subgroup, under AI.

[Bilbo Baggins]

But Sawg has always been free.

[s1138]

LOL

i should read everything before i post..i just posted this in that AI poll thread.

pretty cool though...robots funny..hehe

[zootm]

T3 with arnold schwartzenegger... evil hunter-killer small, harmless robot named gaak 10000 goes on escaping spree.

[binary hero]

Originally posted by Gonzotek
What I'd really like to see is how a sizeable population of these "auto-intelligent" bots would do. For instance, a lot of people know about the guy who has been building small robots to act like frogs by making ultra-sonic noises and finding each other based on that. What if we took it several steps further: introduce food, reproduction, and elimination factors. Like certain parts of the population's living area are designated as food; two robots can "mate" by remaining together, undisturbed, for a set period of time (possibly under certain other conditions, such as day vs. night); and certain bots are designated as predators which can eliminate other predators as well as non-predator bots. When a "mating" is successful, a new bot is then placed near the location it was conceived at; when a predator makes a "kill", that robot is removed from the population, AND the predator gets an energy boost.

Hmmm....this could be a GREAT sim game.

-=Gonzotek=-

that is a great idea
*binary_hero grabs his soldering iron.