[HN Gopher] See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym' ___________________________________________________________________ See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym' Author : DrNuke Score : 31 points Date : 2021-12-18 14:57 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.wired.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com) | jaytaylor wrote: | Archive link: https://archive.md/F9ehg | clavicat wrote: | I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. | ed wrote: | Very cool! It might be hard to imagine applications for this, but | one could be Xenobots, which are soft robots made from living | cells. | | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-f... | wbobeirne wrote: | I remember "playing" BoxCar2D[1] for hours as a kid, | unfortunately Flash has done away with it. Looks like there have | been some JS-based spiritual successors though[2]. | | 1. http://boxcar2d.com/ | | 2. https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ | kris-s wrote: | Fabulous animations, I hope this means we're close to applying | these genetic algorithm techniques to soft robots that we can | actually build. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-18 23:00 UTC)