article_snippet: And now researchers are starting to emulate the same process in robots, so that researchers can learn how to perform complex tasks.
article_snippet: Research involves a similar process of selection but on a larger and faster scale, allowing artificial brains to pick out the most worthwhile traits and continue evolving.
article_snippet: Those that performed the task best had simulated 'offspring', creating a better brain .
article_snippet: The brains that performed the task best had the largest number of simulated ‘offspring’, meaning the smartest robots multiplied.
highlights_snippet: Those that performed the task best had simulated 'offspring' and multiplied .
  
highlights_snippet: In so doing Research could learn to perform tasks better and better .
  