Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #11544
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: BUDSCOTT@aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:13:56 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: lobster (BEAMlife)
>the robots die when ever they are without power. a goal might be for the
>bot to store extra power in a battery so it lives a while with out light.
>or have multiple batteries that go one when one goes out then include
>memory. it would be like a bug.
I really used to think that a bot would be dead without power too, but you
have to realize that our bots aren't like animals, they don't need a constant
supply of power, if the power gets cut, all ya need to do is put it back on.
However, if I shot a deer in the head it wouldn't just get up once i put a
band-aid on it. I think that all our bots need is mechanical memory, don't
get too caught up in electronics, cause there are wind up toys that walk too.
all a good bot really needs is a good robotisist to sit on the sidelines and
add more crap on to it, its kinda of like going through childhood, but with a
physical outside force changing your actions every time you do something
undesired. However, we also could combine the simplistic nature of BEAM with
CPU bots to make a more ultimate bot. On an early subject of mails somebody
mentioned having BEAM be a CPU bots reflexes, have a CPU control different
systems of bicores and such, it would be like an ultimate hybrid. Though i
could be wrong, quite possibly everything needed in a bot can be provided by
BEAM. food for thought!
-Spencer
11545 Wed, 8 Mar 2000 21:36:56 EST [alt-beam] Re: lobster (BEAMlife) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Bumper314@aol.com In a message dated 3/8/00 7:24:29 PM Mountain Standard Time, BUDSCOTT@aol.com
writes:
> >the robots die when ever they are without power. a goal might be for the
> >bot to store extra power in a battery so it lives a while with out light.
> >or have multiple batteries that go one when one goes out then include
> >memory. it would be like a bug.
So even if there was a memory to these beam bots (which I dont really think
there is) and turning them off will kill that memory, It wouldnt be hard to
impliment a cool, sleep cycle where the brain is still running, but the
mechanics are off. Keeping the "memory". So that makes these bots even more
biological still. We give them the ability to eat and turn that into energy,
and to sleep and maintain memory. You dont get much more biological then that.
steve
11546 Wednesday, March 08, 2000 7:52 PM Re: lobster (BEAMlife) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com BUDSCOTT@aol.com
>>the robots die when ever they are without power. a goal might be for the
>>bot to store extra power in a battery so it lives a while with out light.
>>or have multiple batteries that go one when one goes out then include
>>memory. it would be like a bug.
>
>I really used to think that a bot would be dead without power too, but you
>have to realize that our bots aren't like animals, they don't need a
constant
>supply of power, if the power gets cut, all ya need to do is put it back
on.
>However, if I shot a deer in the head it wouldn't just get up once i put a
>band-aid on it. I think that all our bots need is mechanical memory, don't
>get too caught up in electronics, cause there are wind up toys that walk
too.
>all a good bot really needs is a good robotisist to sit on the sidelines
and
>add more crap on to it, its kinda of like going through childhood, but with
a
>physical outside force changing your actions every time you do something
>undesired. However, we also could combine the simplistic nature of BEAM
with
>CPU bots to make a more ultimate bot. On an early subject of mails somebody
>mentioned having BEAM be a CPU bots reflexes, have a CPU control different
>systems of bicores and such, it would be like an ultimate hybrid. Though i
>could be wrong, quite possibly everything needed in a bot can be provided
by
>BEAM. food for thought!
> -Spencer
i had that thought, but the beam would the subconscious that tells it how
to walk and operate the body and the CPU would give it direction and meaning
like ourselves.
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