Markus Waibel
writes, “Thought you might like to know that
Hod Lipson, Viktor Zykov and Josh Bongard just published
a Science
paper
on a robot that can cope with damage, such as losing a leg. Their robot
continuously tries to improve its own internal model of itself, and can
thus discover when it is damaged and, more importantly, adapt its
movements to compensate.” For more see the AAAS
Science Now article or the Cornell Robotic
Introspecition: Self-Modeling website, which also has lots of photos
and video of the Black
Starfish robot used in their research.