Steve Grand (roboticist) explained

Steve Grand
Birth Date:	12 February 1958
Nationality:	British
Awards:	Order of the British Empire (2000)

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

CreaturesOne of the best known projects created by Steve Grand is Creatures, an artificial life simulation, which his company Cyberlife Technology released in the 1996. It was the first in a series of games.

Lucy, the AndroidHis 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-biosisGrand 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] [11]}

GrandroidsIn February 2011, Grand announced a new project, Grandroids, described as "real 'alien' life forms who can live in a virtual world on your computer".^[12]

Bibliography

• Creation: Life and How to Make It (2001)
• Growing Up with Lucy (2004)
• What is the Secret of Consciousness? (2014) TEDx Oporto presentation

External links

• • Transcript of Steve's keynote speech, "Machines Like Us," given at the Applied Knowledge Research Institute's 2002 Biennial Seminar
• Steve Grand at MobyGames
• 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

Notes and References

1. News: Daniel . Dr . Science seen under the right conditions . BBC News . 2006-01-09 . 2011-03-06.
2. Web site: Investiture . 2014-08-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080421220832/http://fp.cyberlifersrch.plus.com/people/steve/investiture.htm . 21 April 2008.
3. News: SCI/TECH | Robots get busy . BBC News . 27 December 2000. 2011-03-06.
4. Web site: Radio 4 - The Material World 07/04/2005 . BBC . 2011-03-06.
5. News: Dermody . Nick . UK | Wales | A Grand plan for brainy robots . BBC News . 2004-03-18 . 2011-03-06.
6. News: Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life . The New York Times . Sarah . Lyall . 2 February 2002.
7. News: A Grand plan for brainy robots . BBC News . Nick . Dermody . 18 March 2004.
8. Web site: 2005-12-14. Cyberlife Research Product 1. 2021-07-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20051214165042/http://fp.cyberlifersrch.plus.com/lucy.htm. 14 December 2005.
9. Grand. Steve. 2008. Creating artificial life for fun, one cell at a time. PerAda Magazine. 10.2417/2200812.1449. 5 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031949/http://www.perada-magazine.eu/pdf/1449/1449.pdf. 1 December 2017.
10. Web site: Barbalet . Tom . [tt] [alife] Steve Grand's project released open source ]. https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030842/http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2010-June/007499.html . 1 December 2017 . dead.
11. Web site: Simergy: ALife Construction Set . 7 August 2015 .
12. Web site: Blowing my own trumpet « Steve Grand's Blog . Stevegrand.wordpress.com . 2011-02-28 . 2011-03-06.