The Golem Project Automatic Design and Manufacture of Robotic Lifeforms Hod Lipson and Jordan B. Pollack

Press

This project has received some attention from the press and popular media. Here are some links:

Printed Press

• Scientific American: Dawn of a New Species? (cached)
• TIME Magazine: A Robot Out of Cyberspace (cached)
• US News - Out of the digital ooze, robotic life (cached)
• Los Angeles Times - One Giant Leap for Machinekind? (Front Page) (cached)
• New York Times - Scientists report they have made robot that makes its own robots (Front Page, Next page)
• Washington Post - System Creates 'Robotic Life'--Automatically (Front page) (cached)
• The Wall Street Journal (Op-Ed): When Robots Act Like Rabbits "- All bets are off"
• New Scientist - A droid for all seasons (cached)
• Le Monde - Les roboticiens invitent Darwin dans leurs laboratoires (French) (cached)
• Der Spiegel - Roboter entwickeln Roboter (German) (cached)
• The Sunday Times - The creation of cyberlife (cached)
• El Mundo - Crean un robot capaz de diseñar y fabricar otros y hacerlos reproducirse y evolucionar (Spanish) (cached)
• El Pais - Papa Robot (Spanish)
• Le Monde - Du sens de l'adaptation chez le robot (French) (cached)
• IEEE Spectrum - Robots give birth at university lab (cached)
• TIME Magazine - Robots: Will They Love Us? Will We Love Them? (cached)
• NRS Handelsbald - Computer ontwikkelt zelf robots (Dutch) (Front Page)
• Science News -Robots making robots, with some help (cached abstract)
• National review - The Monster from Waltham (cached)
• Muy Interesante - Mama robot tendra un bebe (spanish) (hi-res)
• Boston Globes
• USA Today
• Focus Magazine
• Ha'aretz (Front Page)
• Daily Tribune
• Panorama Magazine
• Technology Review - The Technology Review Ten: Robot Design (cached)
• United Press International
• The Chicago Tribune
• Times
• Reuters News Report
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Broadcast Media (TV/Radio)

• Scientific American Frontiers - Robot Independence, December 19, 2000 (cashed synopsis)
• NPR - National Public Radio "All Things Considered"
• Discovery Channel (to appear)
• National Geographic (to appear)
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Evolution of the shape-shifters (cached)
• NBC - A revolution in robotic evolution (cached)
• BBC - Robot learns to reproduce (cached)
• Discovery - Robots Self-Replicate, Team Up (cached)
• German Public Radio - Familienbande bald auch unter Robotern (cached)
• ABC - Computer Automatically Designs, Manufactures Robots (cached)
• CBS
• CNN
• WBZ
• WBUR - "Here and Now"(At minute 13)
• RTL - Golem-Projekt: Evolution in Sekundenschnelle (cached)
  

Online Media

• Slashdot - Interview with Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling (cached)
• Slashdot - Co-evolving robots at Brandeis (cached)
• NASA - Cool robot of the week (cached)
• Canoe - Computer makes robot offspring (cached)
• Brandeis - Science Catches up to Science Fiction (cached)
• Brandeis University home page (cached)
• Yahoo - Robotic System Can Design, Make Other Robots-Study (cached)
• Yahoo - Picks of the week (cached)
• Technika - Robot z plasteliny (Polish) (cached)
• e2i - Roboter baut sich selbst (German) (cached)
• Heise Online - Evolution der Maschinen (German) (cached)
• Heise Online - Golem@home (German) (cached)
• Grenzwissen News - Polymorphischer Roboter entwickelt (German) (cached)
• Electronica-ITV - El robot polimórfico (Spanish) (cached)
• Rheintal Online - Virtueller Golem (German) (cached)
• Lesechos - Le projet Golem (French) (cached)
• Origo - Terminator 2 - a jövo ezerarcú robotjai (Hungarian) (cached)
• Transfert - Le robot caméléon (French) (cached)
• Slate - Motion Sickness (cached)
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