Re: self-propagating RCX program

On 09/09/05, Steve Hassenplug <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, September 8, 2005 5:19 pm, Claude Baumann wrote:
> > Now to bring all this to have a self-replicating robot could be the ultimate
> > challenge for the whole advanced Mindstorms community. Are there interested
> > people out there to help working on that project? We'd need LEGO mechanical
> > engineering and RCX programming gurus.
> 
> I've talked with others about the idea of self-replicating robots.  That's no
> small
> task.  The best idea was to build sub-assemblies, and have the first robot put
> them
> together.
> 
> If the first robot was also able to program the others, that would be cool.
> 
> However, I think making a self-replicating robot from LEGO is not realistic.
> 
> Steve
> 
I think efforts to build a Lego Robot that builds simple Lego models
have been made, and sucessfully, but only for fairly simple assemblies
( a 4 peice Lego "Duck").

So first we would need to tackle that - for a given, and known
instruction set, say one of the simple Lego town cars - which would
still be a significant challenge to build a robot to assemble it.

You must awlways take steps first. I am sure both using the RCX, as
well as some of the amazing pneumatic skill recently displayed by Mark
Bellis and others - we could make steps towards at least that goal.
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