This post originally appeared on the University of Cambridge ‘s Research News site: Researchers have observed the process of evolution by natural selection at work in robots, by constructing a ‘mother’ robot that can design, build and test its own ‘children’, and then use the results to improve the performance of the next generation, without […]
The Robo Brain Project
The Robo Brain Project is a multi-university, open-source project to create a massive online knowledge-base which robots around the world can connect to in order to share what they have learned with each other — a kind of Wikipedia for robots. Ashutosh Saxena of Cornell University is the project lead. In this video he explains the […]
Machine Shop Economics: Part 1
I’ve worked in machine shops for most of my life so it’s natural that I would think of a machine shop as a simple model for understanding the inner workings of a capitalist economy. This model also lends itself well to an exposition of the role of technology in transforming our relations of production, and gives the lie […]