Scientist claims he's developed robot "genes"
By Marc Perton 
posted December 16th 2004 6:16AM
posted December 16th 2004 6:16AM
A Korean scientist has created a robot that he claims can bequeath its "genes" to other robots. Professor Kim Jong-Hwan says his robot has 14 artificial chromosomes that can be passed on to offspring, creating new robots with unique personalities. Kim, who has built soccer-playing robots, isn't worried about his "self-reproducing" robots attempting to whack their creators, as in "I, Robot," "Terminator," and just about every other robot movie ever made. "If we design the chromosomes quite safely, then we can avoid such a bad situation," he said. Which is totally the money quote in some future robot historian's book about how they ended up taking over.
It's too late. An Aibo has bitten me.
small robot syndrome
some fr33k will hack the chromosome "software" and make a hermaphrodite robot, or a transvestite robot, or a mongoloid robot, or....
“If we design the chromosomes quite safely, then we can avoid such a bad situation,” he said.
um did he not read Jarrasic Park 1/or watch the movie?....playing God is bad, and always fails to nature.... :P, does not matter if metal or flesh/plant.
Nobody's asking the obvious question, which is, how are the genes passed down, exactly? Sexually or asexually? (That's as far as I'm going on this train of thought.)
Great, now the red states will have to ban robotic gay marriage.
will they ban humans having sex with robots too?
"Invented", you say? Nonsense! :)
Go read about Genetic Algorithms (for example, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithms). It has been around for quite a while now...
wow its agony,may b in future male n female robot mate each other 2 produce a child robot which can grow as human?kim what do u think of this?