Press

Some of our work gets covered by the popular media—in press, radio, television and internet news sites. Some excerpts are listed below. These sources change rapidly, so a cached version is also included where possible.

2009

RapidToday: STL 2.0 May Replace Old, Limited File Format, October 30, 2009 [pdf]
Q2C Festival Waterloo, Canada, October 22: The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Robotics Revolution and the Future of Evolution [vid]
Q2C Festival, Waterloo, Canada, October 21: Science in the Pub: So We're All Gonna Be Robots Now? [mp3]
Radio TICAL: Making Machines that Can Learn, Podcast Interview with Hod Lipson by Michael Simkins [mp3]
TEDBlog: World Science Festival 2009 report: Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon by Matthew Trost [pdf]
EyeOnTechnology: Cornell Professor Creates Auto-Learning Entities by CG Masi [pdf]
Galactica Sitrep: Evolutionary Robotics and Battlestar Galactica: an Interview with Hod Lipson by Sam J. Miller [pdf]
Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report: The Awakening of the Artificial Mind, May 2009 [pdf]

Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data (Science 324, 2009):

Wired Magazine: Computer Program Discovers Laws of Physics by Brandon Keim [pdf]
New York Times: Hal, Call Your Office: Computers That Act Like Physicists by Kenneth Chang [pdf]
The Cornell Chronicle: Move over, Newton: Scientifically ignorant computer derives natural laws from raw data by Bill Steele [pdf]
Nature News: Physics by numbers by Philip Ball [pdf]
ScienceDaily: Being Isaac Newton: Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data by Bill Steele [pdf]
Physics World: Algorithm discovers physical laws by Edwin Cartlidge [pdf]
NSF: Maybe Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, But Can They Do Science? by Joshua Chamot [pdf]
NSF: Teleconference with Cornell University professor Hod Lipson, doctoral student Michael Schmidt and reporters [mp3]
The Telegraph: Robot discovers laws of Newton in hours by G.S. Mudur [pdf]
Reuters: Robot scientists can think for themselves by Ben Hirschler [pdf]
PhysOrg: Researchers Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply? by PhysOrg.com [pdf]
ScienceNOW: Robotic Scientists Make First Discoveries by Constance Holden [pdf]
USA Today: Robots act as scientists without assistants by Dan Vergano [pdf]
Digg Frontpage: Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives natural laws from data submitted by lekahe [pdf]
Dail News & Analysis: In a first, machines crack science puzzles by Sci/Tech [pdf]
Dziennik (Poland): Roboty potrafią myśleć jak uczeni by Magdalena Salik [pdf] [translated]
GearLog: Scientists Develop Thinking Robot posted by Jamie Lendino [pdf]
The Independent: Robot scientists 'can think for themselves' by Reuters [pdf]
Red Orbit: Robot Scientists Mark Advancement For Artificial Intelligence by redOrbit staff [pdf]
Nature Blog: Rise of the machines - April 03, 2009 by Daniel Cressey [pdf]
ITextreme (Hungary): Az első robot kutató, mely új tudományos felfedezést tett by MaxRay [pdf] [translated]
aeiou (Portugal): "Adão" é um robô e faz experiências científicas by Life [pdf] [translated]
Publico (Portugal): Investigadores dizem ter criado máquinas capazes de formular teorias científicas by Reuters [pdf] [translated]
Le Scienze (Italy): Adam e Co.: i primi robot che fanno ricerca by Eng & Tech [pdf] [translated]
Novosti (Russia): Robots investigadores realizan primeros descubrimientos by Latest News [pdf] [translated]
Techno-Science (France): Des robots peuvent-ils raisonner comme des scientifiques? by News [pdf] [translated]
Abril (Brazil): Robôs cientistas conseguem pensar sozinhos by Ben Hirschler [pdf] [translated]
MyTech (Italy): Scienza, creati robot scienziati che ragionano da soli by Ben Hirschler [pdf] [translated]
生物通 (Hong Kong): 本期《自然》《科学》精选 by Biology pass [pdf] [translated]
El Mundo (Spain): Adán y Eva, los nuevos científicos robóticos by Rosa Tristan [pdf] [translated]
The Gazette: Watch out scientists, a robot may replace you by Ben Hirschler [pdf]
RTVE (Spain): El próximo Newton podría ser un robot by News [pdf] [translated]
RIAN (Russia): Ученые роботы совершили первые открытия by Science & Tech [pdf] [translated]
Estadao (Brazil): Cientistas criam robôs que fazem descobertas científicas by Reuters [pdf] [translated]
Que.es (Spain): Adán y Eva, los primeros 'robots' científicos by Tech news [pdf] [translated]
Diario (Portugal): Criado robô que faz descobertas científicas by Tech [pdf] [translated]
Softpedia: Algorithm Draws Scientific Laws from Experiment Data by Tudor Vieru [pdf]
Spiegel (Germany): Computer entdeckt selbständig Naturgesetze by People & Tech [pdf] [translated]
Heise (Germany): Adam entdeckt Naturgesetze. Adam ist ein Programm. by News [pdf] [translated]
HardOCP: Computer Program Deduces Laws of Physics by Terry [pdf]
Programmazione (Italy): Leggi di natura scoperte con il computer by Paolo Raviola [pdf] [translated]
Krone (Austria): Software erkennt Naturgesetze by Hardware & Software [pdf] [translated]
Inovacao Tecnologica (Brazil): Robô Cientista 2: novo robô poderá descobrir leis fundamentais da física by Robotica [pdf] [translated]
Examiner: Program self-discovers laws of physics without knowledge of them by Harold Nolte [pdf]
The Guardian: 'Eureka machine' puts scientists in the shade by working out laws of nature by Ian Sample [pdf]
Cornell Daily Sun: What's Next? Super Computers and teh Future of Journalism by Cody Gault [pdf]
The Inquirer: Meet the scientists behind the robo-scientists by Wendy Grossman [pdf]
Correio de Manha (Portugal): Robôs realizam experiências by Technology News [pdf] [translated]
Interia (Poland): Komputer zamiast naukowca by Mariusz Blonski [pdf] [translated]
Watertown Daily Times: Robots in science by News [pdf]
Wirtualna Polska (Poland): Maszyna odkrywa prawa natury by Heise Online [pdf] [translated]
Tendencias Informáticas (Spain): Desarrollan una aplicación informática capaz de explicar leyes físicas naturales by Pablo Javier Piacente [pdf] [translated]
Punto Informatico (Italy): HAL 9000 ha il camice bianco by Alfonso Maruccia [pdf] [translated]
TVNZ (New Zeland): Smart robots may replace scientists by Reuters [pdf]
Heise Online (Germany): Software entdeckt Naturgesetze by News [pdf] [translated]
NyTeknik (Sweden): Vetenskapsmän får konkurrens av robotar by Anders Wallerius [pdf] [translated]
Die Presse (Germany): Prof. Dr. Roboter analysiert vollautomatisch by Jurgen Langenbach [pdf]
Science Podcast, AAAS: Science Podcast: Automating Science [mp3]
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Computers That Do Science [mp3]
Next Big Future: AI and Robotic Breakthroughs that Multiply Scientific Research Productivity by BW [pdf]
Dallas News: Computers to replace drivers, cashiers and... physicists? by Andrew Smith [pdf]
Sci-Tech Today: Scientists Develop Robots To Be Scientists by Dan Vergano [pdf]
科学时报 (China): 美科学家设计出能自行推算物理定律的程序 by Wei Ke [pdf] [translated]
Neues Deutschland (Germany): Physik aus der Maschine by Von Martin Koch [pdf] [translated]
WiredVision (Japan): 「物理法則を自力で発見」した人工知能 by Brandon Keim [pdf] [translated]
Barra Punto (Spain): Un algoritmo capaz de descubrir leyes científicas by JoSek [pdf] [translated]
Seed Magazine: Why We're Not Obsolete by Alex Pang [pdf]
Ha'aretz (Isreal): The Oracle of Natural Laws, April 8, 2009 [scan]
El Comercio (Ecuador): El conocimiento de la Física mejora con un 'software', May 6, 2009 [scan] [pdf] [translated]
Infzm (China): 太聪明的机器人 by 黄永明 [pdf] [translated]
La Recherche (France): Un algorithm pour decouvrir des lois de la nature by Benoit Rittaud [scan]
The Register: Boffins invent automatic net-hookup robofinry machines by Lewis Page [pdf]
La Vanguardia (Spain): Científicos británicos cran un "robot científico" Internet & Technology [pdf] [translated]
El Globo (Brazil): Robôs cientistas conseguem pensar sozinhos by Ben Hirschler [pdf] [translated]
Cornell MAE: Lipson and Schmidt create "Robotic Scientist", discovers scientific laws Monday, April 06, 2009 [pdf]
ASEE: NSF Awardees Use Algorithm to Explain Scientific Laws by Jessica Sabo [pdf]
Science Backstage (Italy): Alla scoperta delle leggi della fisica by Gianluigi Filippelli [pdf] [translated]

BBC Focus Magazine: "Unnatural Selection", Feb. 2009

2008

2007

2006

Hackaday technology hacker blog posting on Fab@Home, December 8, 2006
YouTube posting of video on Fab@Home
Science AAAS - New Robot Shrugs Off Injury By Corinna Wu (cached)
News@Nature - Injured robots learn to limp Heidi Ledford (cached)
Slashdot - New Robot Can Sense Damage, Compensate Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday 11/17, @03:12AM (cached)
Science News Online - Unstoppable Bot: Armed with self-scrutiny, a mangled robot moves on Peter Weiss (cached)
Discovery Channel - 'Starfish' Robot Recovers From Injury Tracy Staedter, Discovery News (cached)
New Scientist - Thoughtful robot adapts to injury Celeste Biever (cached)
National Geographic - Photo in the News: Robot Senses Damage, Learns to Walk Again Aalok Mehta (cached)
Scientific American - Resilient Robot Hobbles Along, Even if Injured Nikhil Swaminathan (cached)
MIT Technology Review - Robotic Recovery By Duncan Graham-Rowe (cached)
Reuters - Robot, heal thyself -- welcome to the future By Will Dunham (cached)
MSNBC - Experiments could lead to self-repairing, even ‘conscious’ machines By Sara Goudarzi (cached)
Cornell University News Service - Cornell robot discovers itself and adapts to injury when it loses one of its limbs by Bill Steele (cached)
Information Week - Robot, Heal Thyself By Sharon Gaudin (cached)
EurekAlert! AAAS - Robot, heal thyself Science Magazine (cached)
The Washington Times - New Robot Can Sense Damage, Compensate by Randolph E. Schmid (cached)
Physorg.com - Robot Discovers Itself, Adapts to Injury (cached)
USA Today - New robot can sense damage and compensate (cached)
Membrana (Russia) - Морская звезда-робот учится ходить и хромать (cached)
C|NET - How a robot learns to walk - and limp (cached)
The University of Vermont News Service - 'Science' Features Professor's Resilient Robot University Communications Staff (cached)
TechNewsWorld - Self-Aware Robot Can Adapt To Environment By Jay Lyman (cached)
SpaceDaily - A Robot Invention With A Leg To Stand On By Staff Writers (cached)
Cosmos (Australia) - Resilient robot adapts to environment Marie Theresa Bray (cached)
Technovelgy.com - Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection And Self-Modeling by Bill Christensen (cached)
Science Update - Scientists are developing robots that can recognize and compensate for injuries. Bob Hirshon (cached)
Virtual Chaos Blog - Robot Introspection: Self Modeling. Nadeem Shabir (cached)
Инфокиборг (Russia) - Разработан робот, обладающий самосознанием (cached)
Sciences et Avenir (France) - Un robot que rien n’arrête (cached)

2005

Discovery Channel - Robot Replicates Itself By Tracy Staedter, Discovery News (cached)
National Geographic - New Robot Reproduces on Its Own James Owen for NG News (cached)
BBC News - US robot builds copies of itself By Roland Pease, BBC science correspondent (cached)
Science News - In Its Own Image: Simple robot replicates itself block by block Peter Weiss (cached)
CNN News - They're here: Reproducing robots (cached)
News@Nature - Robots master reproduction Andreas von Bubnoff (cached)
Wired News - Go Forth and Multiply, Little Bot By Stephen Leahy (cached)
NPR - Birds Do It, Bees Do It… Now Robots Do, Too by Nell Boyce (cached)
NPR Science Friday - Self-Replicating Robots / Science of Sexual Abuse segment produced by Annette Heist and Todd Neale (cached)
Slashdot - Self-Replicating Robots Posted by samzenpus on Wed May 11, '05 07:37 PM (cached)
Make Magazine - Self-replicating Robots (video) by Phillip Torrone (cached)
Cornell University News Service - Simple but seminal: Cornell researchers build a robot that can reproduce by Bill Steele (cached)
Telegraph.co.uk - How to breed robots (cached)
The Register - Cornell Uni develops apocalypse cube By Lester Haines (cached)
Technology Research News - Machine reproduces itself By Eric Smalley, Technology Research News (cached)
University of Texas Dallas News Service - Cornell Researchers Build Reproducing Robot (cached)
Innovations Report (Germany) - Cornell researchers build a robot that can reproduce (cached)
Physorg.com - Researchers build a robot that can reproduce (cached)
The Belfast Telegraph Digital - Stuff of sci-fi nightmares? Army of robots reproduce By Steve Connor (cached)
ScienCentral News - Reproducing Robots by Lindsay Carswell (cached)
Technovelgy.com - Self-Replicating Modular Robots by Bill Christensen (cached)
SpaceDaily - Self-Reproducing Robots Set To Push Boundaries Of Space (cached)
Deccan Herald - Robots can multiply like rabbits? Kenneth Chang New York Times News Service (cached)

2004

Microsoft Research - Nine-legged Robots by Suzanne Ross (cached)

2000

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)
NBC - A revolution in robotic evolution (cached)
BBC - Robot learns to reproduce (cached)
Scientific American Frontiers - Robot Independence, December 19, 2000 (cashed synopsis)
NPR - National Public Radio "All Things Considered"
WBUR - "Here and Now"(At minute 13)
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)
Technology Review - The Technology Review Ten: Robot Design (cached)
Discovery Channel (to appear)
National Geographic (to appear)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Evolution of the shape-shifters (cached)
Discovery - Robots Self-Replicate, Team Up (cached)
German Public Radio - Familienbande bald auch unter Robotern (cached)
ABC - Computer Automatically Designs, Manufactures Robots (cached)
RTL - Golem-Projekt: Evolution in Sekundenschnelle (cached)
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)
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/lis/8644/1.html (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)