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maxwell · 3437 days ago · link · · parent · post: A nematode worm's brain has been mapped, simulated in software & put into a lego robot which now *acts like a worm*
It would be cool if version 2.0 utilised wireless charging, and the "food sensor" was stimulated when the wormbot neared a wireless charging station and obtained charge. Then maybe you could add obstacles and introduce a Darwinian element where only conectomes that could successfully "feed" themselves made it through to the next iteration. You could add random mutations to provide variation and weed out the bad ones by testing them irl with the bot.Stimulating the food sensor made the robot move forward.