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February 18, 2005
Robo-Rats Make Their Own Rules
Psychology professor Jeffrey Schank and mechanical and aeronautical engineering professor Sanjay Joshi, both of the University of California, Davis, designed an experiment to record the behavior of young rats and robots that were confined to the same basic sets of rules in a rectangular arena.
In this tests, robots programmed with no more sense than a blind, deaf baby rat developed new behaviors on their own.
The work could eventually lead to better robots, and it could help humans understand animal behavior, too.
[1] Bjorn Carey, Eek! Robo-Rats Make Their Own Rules, LiveScience, 16 February, 2005. http://www.livescience.com/technology/050216_robo_rat.html
Posted by sjc at February 18, 2005 10:36 AM
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