Minimally Cognitive Creatures

The Basic Idea

Known Species (as of 4/3/01) = ##

Land Creatures

Combination Foodfinders/Wallavoiders

Sea Creatures

Experiments and Projects

Minimally Cognitive Creatures

Rough Terrain Walkers

Goals: non-belly dragging walkers. . .LARGE walkers

Bipedal Locomotion

Arena Warriors

Two different things to select for: life span and distance.

Destructive collision battles

Non-destructive collision battles

Solar Battles: With assimilation energy turned on, eatable corpse turned on, destructive Collisions OFF, SolarRover food finders try to knock eachother over. A horizontal stick assimilates less, so the one laying down will die first and get abosorbed???

Solar Rovers

Solar rovers moving creatures with large verticle components acting as solar absorbers. One of the problems solved is to be able to bear relatively large loads. The evolved “solar panels” can additionally be used for sensor housing and/or armor. One of the difficulties in building wall avoiders is where to put the touch sensors.

Mountain Climbers

Amphibians

Tips and Tutorials

Technical Reports [coming soon]

Links

Artificial Life

Neural Networks

Robotics