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Subject:	So how do we do this?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:47:55 GMT
Original-From:	Steve Baker <SJBAKER1@stopspammersAIRMAIL.NET>
Reply-To:	SJBAKER1@AIRMAIL.NETsaynotospam
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I saw this: http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,47879,00.html ...and wondered what exactly these BIO bugs really do - and how we could make Lego robots that work like that. The blurb says that they use "Nervous Networks" - when I first saw that in an article about BIO bugs, I thought it was some kind of a typo for "Neural Networks" - which is what the description of these beasts sounds like...but now I've seen the term used in several places so I imagine it's not a mistake. If the article in Wired is to be believed, they are quite fancy machines - with 'herding behaviour' and other interesting traits. Does anyone know how these things really work? -- NOTE: MY HOME PAGE HAS MOVED TO http://www.sjbaker.org - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR LINKS AND BOOKMARKS ACCORDINGLY! ----------------------------- Steve Baker ------------------------------- Mail : <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkMail: <sjbaker@link.com> URLs : http://www.sjbaker.org http://plib.sf.net http://tuxaqfh.sf.net http://tuxkart.sf.net http://prettypoly.sf.net http://freeglut.sf.net http://toobular.sf.net http://lodestone.sf.net

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		Re: So how do we do this?
(...) I've seen the bugs, haven't tried one yet. $40/ea. doesn't seem to steep though you do need two if you want to 'fight'. Nervous Nets come from the work of Mark Tilden at Los Alamos. He's been building them for about 10 years now. They're (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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