Thursday, September 25, 2008

Programmable robots

This here's a programmable robot I spotted in a bookstore or something convention at SMX Mall of Asia. I soooo badly want one but this one costs 150,000 pesos. That's right. It's a monetary equivalent of 3 motorcycles. Or a second-hand car. There are cheaper versions. One module with one body segment and 4 wheels costs 15,000 pesos. Oh wait, I'm not sure about the 150,000 pesos for the puppy-bot above. I think the 150K is for the snake-bot. Anyway. I want. For what possible purpose you might ask. For world domination, of course. Von Neumann machines!

Monday, September 22, 2008

Evolved Robot vs Tracker



Here's a sample video of my robot controller that I built with a neural network attached to the scannedRobot event and used genetic algorithm to evolve the weights of its neural network. The opponent is a sample robot that came with Robocode. It's a homing and tracking robot.