Scientists teach robots to hunt

European scientists have started to teach intelligent robots a new skill -- hunting prey, according to a report by online technology magazine Motherboard.

A team of scientists at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland recently taught a human-controlled robot to act like a predator.

Applying new softwares, the robot is reported with the ability to track its prey while observing its environment.

Instead of a regular camera, the newly designed robot uses silicon retina to "see" what's around it in real time. Moreover, it has a deep learning neural network to process data, which works like a brain and helps the robot learn from experiences.

Therefore, the intelligent predator robot can better hunt prey next time it spots something similar.

However, the application of the new robot is not as bloody as the word "predator" looks like. Tobi Delbruck, professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics explained that "one could imagine future luggage or shopping carts that follow you."

The future use of the new software, according to Delbruck, is more like "a parent and child" rather than "a predator and its prey" as its main technology is to track and follow. Endi