http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=robots-evolve-to-look-out-for-their-2011-05-03"We have been able to take this experiment and extract an algorithm that we can use to evolve cooperation in any type of robot," Dario Floreano, a robotics professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and co-author of the new study, said in a prepared statement.I'm not yet convinced that this is as big and generalized a leap as the researchers claim, but it is a neat experiment anyway.