'Mother robot' builds and refines its own kids through 'natural selection'

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a 'mother robot' that can build its own 'children'.

The mother can also test its children and evaluate their performance in order to improve the results when it designs the next generation of robots -- passing down desirable traits, but 'breeding out' less successful ones. Beyond the initial instruction to build robots capable of movement, there is no intervention either by humans or by computers.

By: Katie Collins,

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