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Re: self-propagating RCX program
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:03:49 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:
> So the "raw materials" it's using are pre-built quarter-robot
> sub-assemblies and they connect together using magnets.
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> It's not quite the impressive thing we've been thinking about.
Agreed. I was hoping for much, much more. Specificly, by this definition, I
strongly doubt the claim that this is the "first ever" self-reproduction. Some
of the mechanical models from a long time ago were similar in concept, but with
a "genetic" component (i.e.- duplicates could be of two spieces, with the same
"parts").
It is an interesting application, and something I think the AFOL community
could do at least a couple steps better on (like losing the tape; at least
finding subassemblies, carefully marked, should be possible, with three or four
shorter "radial" tape lines to allow the reproducing robot to home in on a
particular side of the daughter).
--
Brian Davis
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