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    An Engineer’s Plan to Use Swarm Robots to Make Smart Buildings Behave More Like  Super-Organisms Using swarms of robotic sensors that “chase” a structure’s human occupants, he wants buildings to understand everything about us, down to our emotional state. These robot sensors will learn from their mistakes, self-regulate using digital “hormones”, and record information over the course of years, building up a record of experiences to be used as “DNA” to program future versions of themselves, or even other buildings. “Living organisms give birth to the next generation, and have immunity to viruses such as influenza,” says Mita in a video promoting his work. “Our idea was that we wanted to give architecture this kind of biological response capability.” (via BBC - Future - Technology - Robot swarms aim to bring buildings to life ht Kurzweil AI)

    An Engineer’s Plan to Use Swarm Robots to Make Smart Buildings Behave More Like  Super-Organisms

    Using swarms of robotic sensors that “chase” a structure’s human occupants, he wants buildings to understand everything about us, down to our emotional state.

    These robot sensors will learn from their mistakes, self-regulate using digital “hormones”, and record information over the course of years, building up a record of experiences to be used as “DNA” to program future versions of themselves, or even other buildings.

    “Living organisms give birth to the next generation, and have immunity to viruses such as influenza,” says Mita in a video promoting his work. “Our idea was that we wanted to give architecture this kind of biological response capability.”

    (via BBC - Future - Technology - Robot swarms aim to bring buildings to life ht Kurzweil AI)

     
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      An Engineer’s Plan to Use Swarm Robots to Make Smart Buildings Behave More Like Super-Organisms
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      Architecture with Biological Response
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      That’s the way to do it.
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      We’re still quite a ways away from the ‘Matrix’ like robot world, however I’m continually impressed
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      A coming wave?