🚀 go-pugleaf

Has anyone tried to do this: 

"Herds" of cheap (really cheap), reprogrammable robots, each loaded
with one set of the test "chromosome" population of a Genetic
Algorithm system. They could be evaluated to optimize indivdual
performance, or "hive" well-being.  Each "generation" would be the
same robots, with a new generation of "chromosomes" on board.

Pointers to papers or discussion of the feasibility of such a project
would both be welcome. I would think this could be a job for the
much-heralded and -scorned MiniBoard. Wire up all the connections to
various sensors/actuators and let the herd discover uses for them.

My dream, of course, is a bunch of robots that (who?) could
continuously clean my house. :-)

Thanks.

-Layne



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