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Re: self-propagating RCX program
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Date: 
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 18:07:32 GMT
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On 09/09/05, Steve Hassenplug <Steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote:
On Thu, September 8, 2005 5:19 pm, Claude Baumann wrote:
Now to bring all this to have a self-replicating robot could be the ultimate
challenge for the whole advanced Mindstorms community. Are there interested
people out there to help working on that project? We'd need LEGO mechanical
engineering and RCX programming gurus.

I've talked with others about the idea of self-replicating robots.  That's no
small
task.  The best idea was to build sub-assemblies, and have the first robot put
them
together.

If the first robot was also able to program the others, that would be cool.

However, I think making a self-replicating robot from LEGO is not realistic.

Steve

I think efforts to build a Lego Robot that builds simple Lego models
have been made, and sucessfully, but only for fairly simple assemblies
( a 4 peice Lego "Duck").

So first we would need to tackle that - for a given, and known
instruction set, say one of the simple Lego town cars - which would
still be a significant challenge to build a robot to assemble it.

You must awlways take steps first. I am sure both using the RCX, as
well as some of the amazing pneumatic skill recently displayed by Mark
Bellis and others - we could make steps towards at least that goal.
--
http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots



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  Re: self-propagating RCX program
 
(...) You're right. If it's possible to design a robot that can build a four piece duck, it must be possible to design a robot that can build a robot that can build other robots. How many parts can these robots have anyway? Maybe a couple hundred. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: self-propagating RCX program
 
(...) I've talked with others about the idea of self-replicating robots. That's no small task. The best idea was to build sub-assemblies, and have the first robot put them together. If the first robot was also able to program the others, that would (...) (19 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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