Intelligent, Self-healing Robot
This robot is given nothing about its own abilities, and only the goal of getting from point to point b. It does pretty well:
The idea behind the robot is one of exploration and evolution. First, it builds up a set of possibilities of how its parts are arranged. Then, it builds up sets of possible commands to send to those parts. The commands are selected explicitly to try to maximize the differentiation of its internal models of itself. Once the robot has figured out what its made of and how those parts work together, it can attempt to move or accomplish a task. While this “learning stage” is limited to only 16 iterations to prevent a sort of machine epilepsy as it tries out badly performing permutations, it could make a useful fall-back algorithm for accomplishing mechanical tasks in a damaged scenario.
The Cornell News has more information with their article Cornell robot discovers itself and adapts to injury when it loses one of its limbs. What a title.
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[...] Original post by Elliott Back and software by Elliott Back [...]
Very interesting. I wrote a story this week about robots and I wish I had known about this before. I admit I didn’t really do much research. It’s just fiction and “blown off the top of my head”.
Lauren
CornellHealingRobot is the only robot that I've heard that can heal itself.