| Sumario: | Dave Cliff, Inman Harvey, and Phil Husbands, roboticists at the University of Sussex in Britain, have been attempting to construct robots using a minimal number of initial assumptions about how such robots will work. Cliff and his associates hope to create computer programs that will provide them with effective robot physiologies. In order to do so, they have turned to evolutionary biology and are using a process known as a genetic algorithm. Algorithms, which are the basis of any computer program, are basically procedures for solving problems. In genetic algorithms, small strings of computer code, which are treated as genes, are mixed together to produce random programs. These programs are run, and those that provide the best solutions to a problem are selected to “breed” the next generation of programs by combining their genes. The success of this project to date is considered.
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