Robot EVOLUTION: Machines will be able to BREED and birth more adept agents

Scientists from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam designed a much more basic robot capable of producing its own offspring, and the study revealed how the machines will be able to swap and combine their “genetic” information.

The researchers created two of the robots, or parents, which combined their codes to create a stronger machine, according to the research published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

The study read: “Natural lifeforms specialise to their environmental niches across many levels, from low-level features such as DNA and proteins, through to higher-level artefacts including eyes, limbs and overarching body plans.

“We propose ‘multi-level evolution’, a bottom-up automatic process that designs robots across multiple levels and niches them to tasks and environmental conditions.