Scientists Develop Thinking Robot
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Two teams of researchers said on Thursday they had created machines that
could “reason, formulate theories and discover scientific knowledge on
their own,” a development that could potentially signal a major advance in the field of artificial intelligence, according to Reuters.
At Aberystwyth University in Wales, researchers created Adam, a robot that can carry out experiments on yeast metabolism, reason about the results, and plan the next experiment, the report said. So far it has already uncovered something new about the genetics of yeast, in what is apparently the first time a robot has ever made an independent scientific discovery.
Meanwhile, Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt of Cornell University in New York designed a computer program that can uncover the fundamental physical laws behind a swinging double pendulum, teasing out Issac Newton’s laws of motion along the way, according to the article.
Eventually both groups plan to put more robotic designs to work in discovering new medicines and uncovering new scientific principles, respectively. (Image credit: Aberystwyth University)
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