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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
1. generate their own fuel or find it
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You stated the Roomba, no need for me to reiterate.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
2. self repair
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Hmm. I can't really think of a popular/in production robot that does this now, but I can't picture this being anything beyond a somewhat complex self-debugging system. What are the logical things you do when your finger is hurting you? Rest it. Splint it maybe. Ice it. Etc. The robot would be programmed to recognize a set of symptoms and treatments.
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Originally Posted by Ashley Christine
Once a robot can reproduce then it will be living. LOL.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
3. self replicate (with error detection and correction).
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http://science.slashdot.org/hardware...tid=216&tid=14
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The Guardian unlimited is reporting that Korean roboticist Kim Jong-Hwan, who founded the robot football (soccer) World Cup, and is the director of the ITRC-Intelligent Robot Research Centre, has developed a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty, and could eventually lead to them reproducing.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../05/11/2242239
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Scientists at Cornell University have created small robots that can build copies of themselves.
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As far as "with error detection and correction", I'm not totally sure what you mean by that. What if this robot is programmed with a PID loop of sorts, and when it reproduces the PID is tweaked because it notices that it needs to move slower/etc.
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Originally Posted by Cody C
I'll consider a robot to be living when it won't let me turn it off.
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Well, instead of that big red switch on the robot, just directly connect the wires. Yes, you could just cut the wires, which are the lifeline of the robot, but you could also cut a living beings lifeline (blood vessels, windpipe, etc.)
As far as sparksandtabs post on adaptation... that is a tough one. Now, if I understand evolution correctly, animals naturally do
not adapt to their environment. Instead, an animal is born with a genetic mutation that allows it to survive in a new area. This animal out-lives and out-reproduces all the other "normal" gened animals, eventually becoming the predominant gene type. So now this ties in with the topic of robotic reproduction. Going back to the PID example, would a robot with the better PID tuning not out-live the other robots, with an inferior tuning? This robot will recognize that it does not need to change that aspect of itself, and pass that aspect down to it's children. The children will then find an unsatisfactory aspect of it's programming, fix it and pass it down to
their children, so on and so forth.
This post may be confusing and unorganized, but it's hard to organize thoughts like this
