Via Fox News:
The Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor took this crafty squirrel strategy and applied it to robots. His detailed research was published in this month’s IEEE Intelligent Systems, funded by the Office of Naval Research.
Arkin’s robot succeeded in luring a "predator" robot to a fake location, delaying the exposure and seizure of the resources it was tasked to protect.
Points:
- Examples of deceptions in nature robots could use:
- “Nefarious tricksters, squirrels gather acorns, store them in specific location and then routinely return to patrol the hidden caches. If a hungry squirrel sidles up for a raid on the caches, the nut owner will visit empty acorn sites to deceive the would-be squirrel acorn-nicker.”
- “If under threat of an attack, Arabian babbler birds will sometimes opt to launch a mob counterattack, banding up with other birds to harass the predator until it finally surrenders and departs…this deception technique was the best approach -- provided there were enough robots to create a group large enough to harass a predator into departing.”
- “Equipping robots with the ability to deceive each other -- not to mention humans -- is rife with ethical issues, however.”
