'Mating' robots a leap in digital Darwinism

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'Mating' Robots Take a Fast-Forward Leap in Digital Darwinism

We might as well just give up control over the planet right now.

In recently published research, scientists detail a set of experiments in which robots — real, physical machines — improved themselves through a kind of digital Darwinism. The bots, each drawing from a collective "gene pool," competed with one another over multiple generations, gradually swapping genetic material in a process akin to sexual reproduction. The research article appeared in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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