Nick Cheney at Cornell has developed a way for robots to evolve within days.
By Marshall HonorofTechNewsDaily
NEW YORK Robots are simply more efficient than humans at certain tasks. They already excel at building cars, exploring distant planets and hunting for explosives, but it turns out that robots might also evolve much faster than their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
Nick Cheney, a Ph.D. student at Cornell University, presented his research at an Inside Cornell lecture on May 21. Cheney has developed a method by which complex computer simulations in a specific virtual environment robots, by his definition can evolve from selective pressures, just like animals in nature, but on a timescale of days instead of countless generations.
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