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'Mother' Robot Taught Natural Selection

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Scientists at Cambridge University and ETH Zurich have collaborated to build a robot which can "have babies".

According to the research published in journal PLOS One, the 'mother' robot is able to build its own babies out of blocks with motors in them. It then watches them take their first steps, and changes its next baby so it can go further.

Image credit: Cambridge University

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