Darwin's devices what evolving robots can teach us about the history of life and the future of technology
"What happens when we let robots play the game of life? The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past--we can't witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today. But biorobotics expert John Long has found an ingenious way to overc...
| Main Author: | Long, John, 1964 Jan. 12- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Why robots?
- The game of life
- Engineering evolvabots
- Tadros play the game of life
- The life of the embodied mind
- Predator, prey, and vertebrae
- Evolutionary trekkers
- So long, and thanks for all the robotic fish.