Experiment conducted at LIS and UNIL gets wide media attention
Small foraging robots used in the experiment
The PLoS Biology article on "A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism" gets wide media coverage.
Click the links below to access a number of online news articles about the research conducted at LIS and UNIL:
- LA Times - A theory of natural selection
- Discovery Channel - Tiny robots reveal why we share
- Scientific American - Robots Evolve to Look Out for Their Own
- Science Magazine - Even Robots Can Be Heroes
- NBC - Why do we share? Tiny Robots Answer Question
- Le Temps - Des robots à l'école de la solidarité
- EPFL News - Robots Learn to Share, Validating Hamilton's Rule
- Joowii newspaper (in Chinese) - Click here
- Technology Review - Can Robots Really Teach us About Altruism?
- HetiVälasz - Önzetlen robotok
Below is an interview of Prof. Dario Floreano by EPFL News :
Photo Credit: EPFL/ Alain Herzog