GENOMICON

Told you so

Little robot that reacts to SMS emoticons… among other things.

Pretty cool – one day someone will figure out something that’s actually useful to do with this – absolutely inevitable… the fact that there’s a camera, microphone, speakers, sense-of-balance etc in these things gives it an incredible amount of scope. I would have thought. A detachable head, as I’ve pointed out before.

There’s a potentially interesting sci-fi angle in cellphones using genetic algorithms to “learn to walk”… not just with a purpose-built bit of hardware, but any bit of hard-ware. A cellphone could take over an electric toothbrush or an electric carving-knife and use it to scuttle across the floor.

There are a bunch of videos about using genetic algorithms to learn to walk… I’ll try to find the Ted one… hang on…

there you go.