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Josh Bongard a roboticist from the University of Vermont has just netted a prestigious 2007 TR35 Young Innovator award for this work on self modeling robots. The work on self-modeling robots is truly brilliant! Consider a humanoid robot like Honda's Asimo. Asimo walks only because it has been programmed by engineers with a bunch of instructions (a model) to walk. Self-modeling robots however, create their own models for performing tasks like locomotion. Professor Bongard and his colleagues Victor Zykov and Hod Lipson at Cornell University developed a robot that is able to create its own set of instructions for moving around. The robot starts off only with knowledge of its motors and parts. ... continued