biomorph snake robot 1

this 9 link snake robot is using a nervous network controller with only 40 transistors (20 inverters)!
It is biologically inspired, and uses a Suspended Bicore (after M. Tilden)
I can move like a snake, but not locomote, however, when turned on it's side, it moves and locomotes like a worm

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• snake
• biomorph
• robosnake
• worm
• anthony
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• b.e.a.m.
• artificiallife
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[DJDonPorno]

pretty cool but not moving :P

i wonder how much time and money those robots cost

[anthonyhsiao]

Not much at all. this 'robot' (it's not actually programmed or anything, so we don't call it a robot as such) is just a collection of 9 servos, some scrap metal, a couple of inverters and Leds... maybe USD30-50 in total?

[Membrane556]

nervous nets are neat esp in how the behavior arises on it's own due to the design of the network and is not coded.

[anthonyhsiao]

That's absolutely right. And it provides for great insight, or at least opens the door for imagination, to how things we perceive as 'alive' might actually be very similar 'biological machines'. It certainly was an eye opener (or thought provoker) to me!

[energizer95]

Are you using evolution algorithms for generating of moves ? I as AI scientist , can see big potential of it.

Things are not clear everytime.

[anthonyhsiao]

Hey Energizer, I am not using evolutionary algorithms or mechanism here. This is partly because in the 6 weeks I spent on it in total, I didn't have time to look more into evolutionary mechanisms, and also because this thing is not programmed. No software or code. Just transistors. And unless I was using some sort of FPGA or EPLD or so (which I wasnt), I couldn't have used evolutionary mechanisms anyways.

Remember: NOT A SINGLE LINE OF CODE, JUST 40 TRANSISTORS!

[jtno2]

That was $34,000 well spent.

[proberush]

But the real question is: Will it blend?

[fedism]

All I could think of is...I'm in that part of YouTube.

[Kackamann1]

nice dildo

[ZaWarudo116]

New sex toy?

[impavitus]

more of a bio wigglerthingy

[Wickenburgz]

looks like a hi-tech sperm... :)

[Mastie2]

i call it the fail-bot :P

[SkaetrPunk777]

i lol'ed

[DaPopsta]

i think the creator made this bot not be able to move so it couldnt run away from the creator like all the other creations that hated him and his stupidness

[walter0bz]

make a smaller version which crawls inside the ear and wraps itself around the cerebral cortex, rendering the victim unusually susceptible to suggestion

[virusache]

well, your problem is simple, as it is hard to solve..... you got the motion wrong, it's like clapping 2 wings made out of wood and cloth and hoping to fly.... but it's pretty hard to mimic nature.

Anyway, good job!