Mark Tilden explaining Walkman (VBug1.5) at the 1995 BEAM Robot Games

Part 1/2 - From the archives at Solarbotics, here's another treasure: Waaay back in 1995, at the Glorietta conference Center where the BEAM Robot games was being held, Mark Tilden sat down and explained the function & behavior of his ground-breaking VBug 1.5 Walkman. Runs over 10minute YouTube limit - edited version will follow when we find the original footage again!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• BEAM
• Mark Tilden
• VBug1.5
• Walkman
• Robot

[wtmac02]

@drewkeener lets see you do better.... till then shut ur cake-hole.

[theonelinerkid]

id love to see people build hundreds of these and let them into the fields and deserts and moors and see them roam in the open outdoors

[theonelinerkid]

@PresCoke thats incredible......its almoast as if they were alive.. could the be called intellingent and self aware?

[PresCoke]

@theonelinerkid At a lecture at UWO Mark Tilden showed pictures of just such an experiment. He released robots similar to the one above into a desert. The cool thing was robots of similar make actually formed herds even though they were released in different relative locations. Was tres cool.

[whatnottobe]

cooool!!!

[drewkeener]

An insect would have negotiated that first obstacle in an instant. Still so weak next to natures design. Not impressed.

[keithosmarferrer]

wow

-keith*

[kattejuice]

awesome!