Robotic Cunning

The video clip shows my topic for project two.

Dario Floreano and his team at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have been studying the evolution of robotic communication so that we can better understand ourselves and other social species. Last year they published their results in the report “Evolutionary Conditions for the Emergence of Communication in Robots.”

The Robots began with no knowledge of communication and slowly developed their own. Their goal was to find the food and avoid the poison. The researchers found that some robots lied to eat the food source by themselves, and others were heroes warning their peers of the poison before they died.