Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots That Change By 'Consuming' Other Robots (404media.co)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/158204/pentagon-funded-experiment-develops-robots-that-change-by-consuming-other-robots
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/pentagon-funded-experiment-develops-robots-that-change-by-consuming-other-robots/
> A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed " [2]machines that can grow by consuming other machines ." Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form into more complex shapes like triangles and tetrahedrons. With each piece consumed, the whole moves faster and with more elegance.
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> "AI systems need bodies to move beyond current limitations. Physical embodiment brings the AI into the messy, constraint-rich real world -- and that's where true generalization has to happen," Phillipe Martin Wyder, lead researcher on the project, told 404 Media.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~alternative_right
[2] https://www.404media.co/pentagon-funded-experiment-develops-robots-that-change-by-consuming-other-robots/
Big Hero 6 (Score:2)
It's only a movie.
it's only a movie.
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> It's only a movie.
I'm worried about the future movie which will include a caption stating "inspired by real events"
I only had a general biology class in college ... (Score:2)
I only had a general biology class in college, but doesn't this resemble biological virus behavior a little? Their interacting, mutating, evolving, etc.
What could go wrong?
They only asked if they could (Score:2)
Besides, if they didn't some other random fool would do the same now that the technology allows it, so may as well be some PhD students who will go on to do something wholly unrelated to their field of study three years from now.
Busta Rhymes' (Score:2)
EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT
alarmist click bait title (Score:3)
These robots don't "consume" anything. They can attach to each other with what looks like magnets. That is all.
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Exactly! Assembly is pretty far from consumption.
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Oh, 404 media. That explains the sensationalism and falsehoods.
LOL (Score:2)
I was expecting something fascinating. Instead I see a video of shafts with magnets on the end bumbling around. How did this crap get funded? I was doing more interesting things with my Erector set when I was 10 years old back in the 70's.
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I agree but with the right connections they'll do a round of funding and get billions. Maybe even do an IPO. Its 1999 again.
Thor (Score:2)
When it became clear to the Asgard High Council that the war with the Replicators could not be won, a plan was devised—a trap was set
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Right? Next we'll be hearing about an exciting new experiment whereby AI controlled robots are able to extract iron from copious amounts of human blood they've been programmed to have an unquenchable thirst for.
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Next we'll be hearing about an exciting new experiment whereby AI controlled robots are able to extract iron from copious amounts of human blood they've been programmed to have an unquenchable thirst for.
You only need just over [1]2,300 people [wearethemighty.com] to get enough iron from their blood to make a sword.
If you want to go for steel you'd need just over 16,000 people.
[1] https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-gaming/blood-iron-sword-myth-explored/
Re:Dumb, (Score:4, Insightful)
The robot can only expand if a human puts the exact part that it needs directly in its path, and that part is designed to click into place.
This robot is not Skynet. Sarah Conner is safe.