It's on a t-shirt, so that means it's true - right?
Lets say you have a piece of really complicated but incredibly useful new technology, like an ion engine for instance. Once you realize the tremendous possibilities for your new tech, not even the sky is the limit. During testing, you discover that your awesome ion engine happens to damage itself during use and will wear out after 3 years. Now what do you do? How can you take this exciting new technology and already make drastic improvements to it? Darwin has the answer.
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How will robotic personalities evolve in the future?
Robots that have the ability to think and make their own choices is a fear that has evolved thanks to science fiction books and movies, but how exactly can a robot make those decisions? Within a group of people, each person will make differing choices when faced with similar obstacles and stimuli based on previous experiences and a unique personality. Faced with a similar choice, it is usually assumed that a robot would make a decision based purely on the programming it houses and therefore leave the robot devoid of a personality. This is not going to be the case any longer, because scientists have developed the ability to give robots a unique and changing personality based on robotic genes and chromosomes.
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