Now Scientists Are Teaching a Robot to Hunt Prey

Some scientists are hard at work making a "kill switch" to overpower a too-strong AI and protect us, if needed. Others are specifically teaching robots how to hunt prey, also to help us. Researchers at the University of Zurich's Institute of Neuroinformatics are teaching a small, truck-shaped robot to see, track, and hunt its prey (another small, truck-shaped robot). The predator robot uses an advanced "silicon retina" to see instead of a traditional camera. This "silicon retina," which is modeled after animals' eyes, uses pixels to smoothly detect changes in real time instead of slowly processing frame-by-frame images.