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wildcatfollowshare
1-15-2008 8:33 PM
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wildcat says:
By the 50th generation, the robots had learned to communicate—lighting up, in three out of four colonies, to alert the others when they’d found food or poison. The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink.

Some robots, though, were veritable heroes. They signaled danger and died to save other robots. “Sometimes,” Floreano says, “you see that in nature—an animal that emits a cry when it sees a predator; it gets eaten, and the others get away—but I never expected to see this in robots.”
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1-16-2008 5:10 AM
Fast T friend
"Let us make them in our image"
1-16-2008 9:12 AM
BartendingBear
The Terminator lives!
1-17-2008 9:26 AM
splendidus
Wow, this is stunning (to me at least)...
I wonder if they're going to publish details about this work...
1-17-2008 9:30 AM
splendidus
One can purchase the full article here I found out...
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