Steve Grand (roboticist)
Steve Grand OBE (born 12 February 1958) is a British computer scientist and roboticist.[1] He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and how to make it, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which he received in 2000.[2]
Grand's project from 2001–2006 was the building of an artificial robot baby orang-utan, with the intention of having it learn as a human baby would.[3][4][5] This is documented in his book Growing up with Lucy.
Projects
- Creatures
One of the best known projects created by Steve Grand is Creatures, an Artificial Life simulation, which his company Cyberlife released in 1996.
- Lucy, the Android
His project from 2001–05 was Lucy, a mechanical baby orang-utan. Lucy was an attempt at simulating the mind of a human baby.[6][7][8]
- Sim-biosis
Grand worked on Sim-biosis, a computer simulation game in which complete artificial creatures could be built from functional, structural units.[9] It is available on SourceForge under the name Simergy.[10]
- Grandroids
In February 2011, Grand announced a new project, Grandroids, described as "real 'alien' life forms who can live in a virtual world on your computer".[11]
Bibliography
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- Creation: Life and how to make it (2001) ISBN 0-7538-1277-0
- Growing up with Lucy (2004) ISBN 0-297-60733-2
- What is the Secret of Consciousness? (2014) TEDxOporto presentation
References
- Daniel, Dr (9 January 2006). "Science seen under the right conditions". BBC News. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "SCI/TECH | Robots get busy". BBC News. 27 December 2000. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- "Radio 4 - The Material World 07/04/2005". BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- Dermody, Nick (18 March 2004). "UK | Wales | A Grand plan for brainy robots". BBC News. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
- Lyall, Sarah (2 February 2002). "Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life". The New York Times.
- Dermody, Nick (18 March 2004). "A Grand plan for brainy robots". BBC News.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20051214165042/http://fp.cyberlifersrch.plus.com/lucy.htm
- Grand, Steve (2008). "Creating artificial life for fun, one cell at a time" (PDF). PerAda Magazine. doi:10.2417/2200812.1449.
- http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2010-June/007499.html
- "Blowing my own trumpet « Steve Grand's Blog". Stevegrand.wordpress.com. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
External links
- Official website
- Transcript of Steve's keynote speech, "Machines Like Us," given at the Applied Knowledge Research Institute's 2002 Biennial Seminar
- Steve Grand at the Creatures Wiki
- Feature article on Steve Grand's anthropoid orangutan, Lucy
- Steve Grand quotes
- Steve Grand's discussion with Johnjoe McFadden
- Cyberlife Research Limited
- Steve Grand's Machines Like Us interview
- Grandroids: Real artificial life on your PC a project by Steve Grand