On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:55:04 -0500 Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
There was a Robot Soccer exhibition not long ago at the local university here, and one of the exciting things I picked up from that was that the little robot dogs they used in the competition were often trained to walk in exactly the way you describe.
Wow, robot dog football? Now that's entertainment! Wouldn't they just keep taking the ball back to the goalie? ;)
For a long time I've been meaning to code up a nice little 3d/physics/GA environment with PyODE and PyOpenGL to try those kind of experiments and replicate Karl Sims' work. Maybe one day I'll find the time!
If we wanted to connect this back to Pd, we could train 3d GAs to dance in time to Pd made music. :)
Sounds cool, I bet Chun and Oli are already onto that :)
a.