Robot learns to fly by "evolving"

Reuters | Robot "learns" to fly

I thought this would be more intersting than it was. Basically, they fed it a bunch of instructions and it picked out the good ones and combined them, according top the article. Doesn't sound like much more than a try everything, pick the best ones, and try them in combinations type algorithm... Oh well...

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