Researchers at Aberdeen University have created a robot that learns and semi-sentiently manages its own evolution.

As this article notes as it reports, this is very much asking for it. You can just picture a couple of Scottish scientists peeling out of the lab parking lot, chased by their Scottish robot fiend with an icy stare and karate chop hands sprinting towards the rear bumper, who just realized that he should turn his limbs into spinning buzzsaw lasers in order to better compost you and drink your oil.

Imagine you’re playing piano and you think “fuck, chicks love piano - I could use a few more fingers” and then you bloody make it happen. The robot social scene’s shaping up to be cooler than ours.