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Re: self-propagating RCX program
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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.
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> 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.
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> If the first robot was also able to program the others, that would be cool.
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> However, I think making a self-replicating robot from LEGO is not realistic.
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> 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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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