Re: battlebots

From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 04:19:35 MDT


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, QueeneMUSE wrote:
>
> Actually Battlebots was kinda lame.

[...snip...]
>
> PSS One hopes that it will evolve into something really truly interesting,
> and that someday they'll use actual robots, programmed ones.

I agree. Glorified Nintendo action wears thin pretty quickly.

As you suggest, I also think that it would be wicked cool if the robots
were totally autonomous i.e. only had an on/off switch and no manual
controls. Having machines that operated on programmed (and particularly
adaptive) behaviors would make the event far more academically interesting
and less predictable.

-James Rogers
 jamesr@best.com



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