British scientists have demonstrated a self-developing robots – BBC Russian

looks like this robot is very modest, but it can at least a little, but do say its creators

British and Swiss engineers have developed a self-developing an automated system, which is able to improve the work performed on their own.

It is a robot mummy that looks like a robotic arm with program management. “Mother” is sitting on a table and is committed to creating their own “kids” in the form of a plastic cube with a motor inside.

Cubes, of course, are not that simple: they can move. Moreover, they are beginning to move better – without any human intervention.

The ultimate goal of the authors of the project – to create robots that can adapt to the environment. Article with the first results of studies of the two teams of scientists working in Cambridge and Zurich, published in the scientific journal PLOS One.

From science fiction

All of this sounds like tie sci-fi movie: humans have created a robot that creates new robots, which each generation better than the last. However, this is not a fantasy, but a description of what have scientists from Cambridge and Zurich.

However, those who are afraid of painting machines taking over the world, have become smarter people should not be scared and grab his head. At least not yet.

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At the moment,” kids-robots “are plastic cubes c a motor inside. “Mom-robot” is composed of these different configurations and see how far it can move child.

The idea is pretty simple, but the automatic is striking in its eccentricity.

Over and over again ” hired by “robot cubes are all great distance, and thus improves and the creation of a robot-maker, which operates independently, without the help of man.

Total” Mom-robot “created 10 generations of their children. The latest version has moved over a distance of two times more than the first “automatic baby”.

Creative robots

The project made by scientists from Cambridge University and researchers from ETH Zurich. British scientist who led the project, Dr. Fumiya Iida says that one of the goals was to understand the development of a living organism.

” Robots-babies “in each new generation achieved the best results

” One of the fundamental questions of biology is How did the intelligence. We use robots to explore this mystery, “- said Dr. Iida in an interview with BBC BBC.

” In our view robots perform repetitive, monotonous operations and provide mainly for production of a huge number of the same, rather than individual products. But we want to create robots that will have innovative and creative ability, “- continues the researcher.

Another goal of the project – the creation of robots that can improve themselves and adapt to new situations. This tells another participant research Andre Rosendo.

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“Imagine robots in the production of cars that are capable of finding their own defects and fix them – he says – or robots in agriculture, which will be thinking about how to improve the methods of harvest and conduct experiments related to this “.

From fiction to reality

Fumiya Iida says that this project has resulted in his frustration he felt when he saw these robots. They have largely lost their fictional counterparts of the film “Star Wars” and “Star Trek”.

Iida decided to look for a hint from nature, to learn from her how to adapt and to improve the development of traditional automation systems.

On the question of when we will see the same robots in science fiction movies, Dr. Iida says, “this is still far away, but it is possible. Maybe in 30 years”.