"Evolving" robot developed

The beginning of the Quantum Age has arrived. Soon people will be able to have conversations with their vaccume cleaners. Like in Flinstones except that the appliances will be machines instead of animals.

I assume they've done something extra to the norm since it's not particularly hard to program a neural network with evolutionary traits.

Hmmmm.... a computer robot that can think, learn & evolve?? Can you say "Terminater" or "The Matrix"!

But..............evolve...that's impossible....

The beginning of the Quantum Age has arrived. Soon people will be able to have conversations with their vaccume cleaners. Like in Flinstones except that the appliances will be machines instead of animals. You must confuse with the Jetsons.. Get your cartoon straight.

I assume they've done something extra to the norm since it's not particularly hard to program a neural network with evolutionary traits. It doesn't seem so, they just add on and train new networks with the new additions to the robot without adapting the initial structure, which is far from optimal. They might as well just start from scratch again and train a completely new network for the 'new' robot, but then they would lose the claim that it evolves I suppose. If you read page 2, 'Kevin Warwick is far from convinced'....my work touches this field and Prof Warwick is the main man whilst I hav... [More]

You must confuse with the Jetsons.. Get your cartoon straight. Think about it. Flinstones had animals for appliances. The animals talked back. Now with advanced robotics the machines will talk back. Your the one confused. do you not understand my reference? So simple.

Think about it. Flinstones had animals for appliances. The animals talked back. Now with advanced robotics the machines will talk back. Your the one confused. do you not understand my reference? So simple. LOL! Yeah it is the Flinstones that do that with their appliances. Everything they use as apliances is some kind of prehistoric animal. LOL! I used to love that show! I loved how he used to clock in at work with some kind of ancient bird that bites down on his card thing as his timeclock for work. Hahhah! Our appliances will be living things just like that except made of medal & computer... [More]