evolution

A collaborative research project between EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) and University of Lausanne demonstrated that robots could indeed evolve and get smarter by themselves. Doesn't this remind us of the Terminator movie? ... continued

Wow, research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looking into the evolutionary transition animals took from water to land have come up with an amazing amphibious robot that looks like a salamander. The robot is able to swim using a wiggling or wavy motion resembling a snake's motion on land. See the video below. The researchers' website has other great videos of the robot in motion.