Bots_alive uses your smartphone to drive artificially intelligent spider robots

The artificial intelligence research behind bots_alive promises to usher in lifelike robots at affordable price points. Artificial intelligence is all the rage in robotics these days, and for good reason: Properly implemented, it has the potential to program'bots on the fly. But those toys and others react in predictable ways to changing contexts and situations. One startup, though, purports to have developed an algorithm capable of generating entirely new behaviors dynamically. It's called bots_alive, and it's the brainchild of Brad Knox.