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
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External links
- Official website
- Official blog
- 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
- Use dmy dates from March 2011
- Pages with broken file links
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Official blog different in Wikidata and Wikipedia
- Creatures (artificial life program)
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- British roboticists
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- English computer scientists
