Stephen Thaler, working for the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a software toolkit called CSMARRT (Creative, Self-Learning, Multi-Sensory, Adaptive, Reconfigurable, Robotics Toolbox) that can be used to design and model virtual robots that can be placed in virtual environments. The goal is to join the Creative Machine AI software he created 10 years ago with robotic hardware. Self-learning and adaptability are the keys to success. 

Source: Wired.com