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Subject: 
Robotic Ants
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:50:43 GMT
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Mihalka, Michael <MihalkaM@marshallcenter./stopspammers/org>
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Folks,

I have been following the discussion of robotic ants with great interest.
Check out this link:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223111
<http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223111>
I couldn't find the link referred to in the article but I think this makes
for a wonderful challenge since I have five smart bricks (two RCXs, two
fishertechnik and one handyboard) and I am extremely interested in the
social behavior of robots. Especially interesting is the comment that the
robotic ants do not directly communicate with each other.

I think the course associated with the article is at:
http://matrix.psych.ualberta.ca/~msnyder/Academic/psych403/week13/w13oh.html
<http://matrix.psych.ualberta.ca/~msnyder/Academic/psych403/week13/w13oh.htm
l>

Michael



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  Re: Robotic Ants
 
Here's a table of the methods a typical ant colony uses for communication, an how similar results could be done on the RCX. An NA in the RCX column means I didn't see a reason why a robot would want to ever immulate that behavior. Stimulus (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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