{"id":258591,"date":"2010-02-01T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/01\/evolving-robots-navigate-a-maze-help-each-other-plot-descruction-of-mankind\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:21:11","slug":"evolving-robots-navigate-a-maze-help-each-other-plot-descruction-of-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/258591","title":{"rendered":"Evolving robots navigate a maze, help each other, plot descruction of mankind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosbiology.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000292\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"16\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/robot-maze.jpg\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ll say the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/RobotApocalypse\/\">Robot Apocalypse<\/a> meme is played out. We say it&#8217;s your lack of focus that&#8217;ll eventually be the downfall of society. Gurus at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique F&eacute;d&eacute;rale of Lausanne have been working on &#8220;evolving robots&#8221; for quite some time, but the latest breakthrough is easily the most astounding (and in turn, terrifying) of all. According to new research that was just made public, a gaggle of robots programmed to use Darwinian selection in order to learn, evolve and mutate have now successfully moved sans collisions through a maze and helped each other push tokens around in order to achieve a common goal. Moreover, some of the creatures even displayed early signs of a predatory-prey relationship, which effectively assures mankind that these cute little learners will one day assimilate to rule the world however they please. Keep laughing if you must &#8212; it&#8217;ll probably make the painful sting of reality a bit easier to take when Doomsday rolls around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/01\/evolving-robots-navigate-a-maze-help-each-other-plot-descructi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Evolving robots navigate a maze, help each other, plot descruction of mankind<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/02\/01\/evolving-robots-navigate-a-maze-help-each-other-plot-descructi\/\">Evolving robots navigate a maze, help each other, plot descruction of mankind<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:49:00 EST.  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We say it&#8217;s your lack of focus that&#8217;ll eventually be the downfall of society. Gurus at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique F&eacute;d&eacute;rale of Lausanne have been working on &#8220;evolving robots&#8221; for quite some time, but the latest breakthrough is easily the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}