Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03731
To: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
From: Bob Shannon bshannon@tiac.net
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:56:34 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM and machine evolution
Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:
> Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > If it were really about evolution, more people would be building Sun Eaters
> > rather than FLED solar engines.
>
> I guess you don't really realize it but the Suneater SE's are being used more.
> Only newbies start with the FLED SE because it only has 6 components that can
> all be found at the local radio shack.
Actually I was going by the last contest enteries.
>
> Show me a "conventional hobby robotics" site that has something other than a uP
> controlled platform with two wheels, polaroid sonar, IR OA, and bump sensors.
> Unless your also including the educational institute web sites out there, they
> are all mostly the same.
Physically that may be similar in appearance, but usually only in a still
photograph.
Your forgetting that these things have behaviors, sometimes learning engines that
actaully
do adapt and develop new solutions to problems.
There is clearly more variety of sensors being used on CPU 'bots than BEAM, and the
CPU bots generally ~do~ something too, something more than move towards the light.
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