Scientist claims he's developed robot "genes"
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.
