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Mother Robot Builds Own Children

What parent doesn't want to mold their child to be better - faster, smarter, more capable? Even though human parents can’t do that, a robot that builds its own children can. Scientists at the University of Cambridge in England have created a mother robot that not only constructs its own children, but tests their performance. It's a robotic version of nature's survival of the fittest. The mother robot analyzes the performance of each of the “children” it creates, and...

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