Steve Grand (roboticist)

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Steve Grand
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Born (1958-02-12) 12 February 1958 (age 67)
NationalityBritish
Occupations
  • Computer scientist
  • roboticist
Awards Order of the British Empire (2000)
Website grandroids.com

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]

Contents

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

Creatures

One 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 Android

His 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-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] [11]

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". [12] In September 2024, the project was renamed to Phantasia, and the progress updates were made public. [13]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Daniel, Dr (9 January 2006). "Science seen under the right conditions". BBC News. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Investiture". Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "SCI/TECH | Robots get busy". BBC News. 27 December 2000. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Radio 4 - The Material World 07/04/2005". BBC. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Dermody, Nick (18 March 2004). "UK | Wales | A Grand plan for brainy robots". BBC News. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  6. ↑ Lyall, Sarah (2 February 2002). "Man Who Would Be God: Giving Robots Life". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Dermody, Nick (18 March 2004). "A Grand plan for brainy robots". BBC News.
  8. ↑ "Cyberlife Research Product 1". 14 December 2005. Archived from the original on 14 December 2005. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  9. ↑ Grand, Steve (2008). "Creating artificial life for fun, one cell at a time" (PDF). PerAda Magazine. doi:10.2417/2200812.1449 (inactive 12 July 2025). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  10. ↑ Barbalet, Tom. "[tt][alife] Steve Grand's project released open source". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Simergy: ALife Construction Set". 7 August 2015.
  12. ↑ "Blowing my own trumpet « Steve Grand's Blog". Stevegrand.wordpress.com. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
  13. ↑ "Welcome back part 1: Website". 24 September 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
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