In the future, robots may acquire the ability to self-replicate, what this means and what it can lead to

Some scientists suggest that in the relatively near future, robots may well acquire the ability to "reproduce" in much the same way as ordinary biological species do. Moreover, some laboratories are already undergoing some kind of experiments in this direction.

Robots and their new abilities in the future

If we look at the world around us, we will see that nature is full of examples of how living organisms adapt to changeable external conditions.

According to E. Hart (professor at the University of Edinburgh. Napier), artificial creatures (robots) will also be able to follow their example in the future. Moreover, the technologies necessary for this, while of course in their infancy, are already being tested in full in modern laboratories.

It is reported that specialists from the Netherlands and Britain have already observed the process of adaptation of the artificial genetic code to external conditions. So the "children" of a robotic system were created from the electronic systems (genes) of two donors (parents). And then the result was sent to a 3D printer to print the result.

So, for example, a new mechanism can gain the ability to move on its back if it is removed from it legs or form a new electronic circuit in the chip when performing disconnection of other elements.

In fairness, I would like to note that the idea of ​​digital evolution itself is far from innovative. So already in the 1960s, German engineers performed computer programming to find the optimal design of a part. And since those distant times, evolutionary algorithms have been working hard to create various objects.

Already in 2006, NASA sent a satellite into space, on which the antenna was created just according to this principle.

Also, according to E. Hart, artificial digital evolution differs from natural evolution in that it can have much more specific tasks, and not only have a goal to survive and pass on a set of genes offspring.

But this does not mean that the person, as it were, will no longer be needed. So, according to scientists, digital evolution will be more a process of cooperation, and people will set the vector of change, and machines will do it all.

But there is also another point of view. So Keith Darling (specialist in relation to people with robots, robotics and the theory of intellectual property) expresses its point of view, according to which you and I are obliged to think of machines as animals.

Indeed, in the past, humanity has found options for using the skills of pets. This means that in the future it will also be able to make a choice, whether robots will complement you and me, or will completely squeeze a person out of production.

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