BIONICS PHYSICAL AI · PART 05 OF 05
After the Robot
What happens when a machine's body is no longer fixed?
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The final article looks at machines whose bodies are no longer fixed: robots that model themselves, adapt to unexpected physics, reconfigure, detect damage, repair and combine different timescales of change.
The question
What happens when robot design continues after deployment?
As design time and run time begin to overlap, the deployed system takes part in work that used to belong entirely to its designers. The body becomes something intelligence can model, adapt and continue designing.