{"id":38218,"date":"2011-05-23T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-team-built-tiny-simple-robots-just-a-few\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:43:57","slug":"the-team-built-tiny-simple-robots-just-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-team-built-tiny-simple-robots-just-a-few\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38218 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-team-built-tiny-simple-robots-just-a-few\/attachment\/38219\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_llg3ulXXo21qene28o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The team built tiny, simple robots, just a few centimeters tall, made of wheels for mobility and a basic sensory system equipped with a camera. Moving around an arena, they would seek out &ldquo;food&rdquo;&ndash;small discs scattered by the researchers. To lend a biological flavor to the arena, the team programmed each robot with stream of ones and zeroes that acted as a sort of digital genome. The researchers found it most practical to then proceed with computerized simulations of the behavior of the actual, physical robots. (They periodically compared the simulated robots&rsquo; behavior with that of the physical robots; the comparisons checked out, Floreano told ScienceNow.) The team then introduced a new rule: robots were allowed to share their food with one another, to help ensure that one of their robo-brethren survived to the next generation in lean times. Running the virtual robots through hundreds of generations, they discovered something remarkable: the robots behaved just as Hamilton had predicted species would. Altruism essentially &ldquo;evolved&rdquo; among the robots&ndash;and when the robots had their digital genome coded to make them closer kin, they evolved altruism all the more rapidly. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/guest\/26772\/?p1=blogs\">Can Robots Really Teach us About Altruism? &#8211; Technology Review<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team built tiny, simple robots, just a few centimeters tall, made of wheels for mobility and a basic sensory system equipped with a camera. Moving around an arena, they would seek out &ldquo;food&rdquo;&ndash;small discs scattered by the researchers. 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