April 7, 2009

Robo-Scientists Think for Themselves

Two research teams have claimed that they have created autonomous robo-scientists that can reason, formulate theories and discover scientific knowledge autonomously. Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt of Cornell University in New York, have developed a program for Twister II that deciphered Newton's laws without any physics instructions.

Meanwhile, Ross King and team in Wales at Aberystwyth University made Adam, who carries out actual experiments and plans the next one. Their next project will be Eve, who will search for new medicines. We can't wait for Cane and Abel. We wonder if they will be able to create other bots in their own images.

Via Reuters