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 to 2006 was the building of an artificial robot baby orangutan, 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 released in 1996.
- Lucy, the Android
His project from 2001 to 2005 was Lucy, a mechanical baby orangutan. 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.
- ^ "Cyberlife Research Product 1". 14 December 2005. Archived from the original on 14 December 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ Grand, Steve (2008). "Creating artificial life for fun, one cell at a time" (PDF). PerAda Magazine. doi:10.2417/2200812.1449. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017.
- ^ "NameBright - Coming Soon". Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "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
- Creatures (video game series)
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- British roboticists
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- English computer scientists
- Researchers of artificial life