http://www.vectorstorm.org/2008/07/26/my-robot/ Creating games, one brightly glowing line at a time. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:30:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.vectorstorm.org/2008/07/26/my-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-256 John Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:17:28 +0000 http://www.vectorstorm.org/?p=191#comment-256 Oddly enough I had an experience like this working with robots for my PhD thesis. I was working with a group of robots that I'd built, which were designed to move as a group toward a goal location. Well, one day while testing, one of the robots started to show signs of a dying battery, so we turned it off and worked with the remaining robots. After a while, we noticed that they were all veering away from empty space -- the last known location of the robot we'd turned off. Apparently they didn't like walking over that robot's "grave" :) Oddly enough I had an experience like this working with robots for my PhD thesis. I was working with a group of robots that I’d built, which were designed to move as a group toward a goal location. Well, one day while testing, one of the robots started to show signs of a dying battery, so we turned it off and worked with the remaining robots. After a while, we noticed that they were all veering away from empty space — the last known location of the robot we’d turned off. Apparently they didn’t like walking over that robot’s “grave”

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