New experiments in embodied evolutionary swarm robotics

Thus, not only do the real robot’s controllers evolve, but their internal models of themselves and their world, co-evolve. This, we believe, is the real advantage of embodied evolution.via Alan Winfield’s Web Log: New experiments in embodied evolutionary swarm robotics.

embodied evolutionary swarm robotics might be on to something… and for some reason this way of doing things is already percolating to science fiction… :) BSG, Caprica fans probably remember Zoe talking to the lab guy about making the robot co-evolve by interacting with the real world… :)