[extropy-chat] A Fully Autonomous Robot Builds Its Own Brain and Learns from Scratch

[Zero Powers]

Holy moly!  Is this for real?!?  Am I reading more into this than is
warranted or has someone really built a "creative" robot?

Zero


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:24:52 -0700 (PDT), Giu1i0 Pri5c0
<pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From eMediaWire: For the first time in history, a
> robot has built its own synthetic central nervous
> system and then learned not only to walk, but how to
> autonomously enter and navigate the corridors of
> complex buildings. This dramatic experiment was
> recently conducted at Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI)
> in St. Louis, Missouri. Neural networks spontaneously
> connect themselves in a matter of seconds into the
> neural circuitry required for extremely ambitious
> robotic brains. The resulting neural network
> architecture both resembles and functions like a
> brain, a collection of individual neural networks
> fused into a contemplative system that can form
> complete models of their worlds, consider alternative
> scenarios, and finally choose that alternative best
> suited to a given problem.
> http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/9/emw159636.htm
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