Steve Grand (roboticist)

Steve Grand
Born (1958-02-12) 12 February 1958 (age 66)
NationalityBritish
Occupations
  • Computer scientist
  • roboticist
AwardsOrder of the British Empire (2000)
Websitegrandroids.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]

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.

  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.