Month: February 2007

LEURRE – robots that fool roaches

LEURRE – robots that fool roaches

These little bots make cockroaches believe that they’re one of them, at least that’s what the roaches want us to believe – LEURRE will propose a modeling protocol to be applied to the calculus of emergence in mixed-societies and study its properties. Its goal is similar to research in collective intelligence or self-organization, namely to […]

MakeShift: Castaway

MakeShift: Castaway

Tomorrow is the last day to turn in solutions to the MakeShift challenge from volume 08! The creator of MacGyver challenges you to survive on a deserted island. There are few fears more primal than being cast away on a deserted island in the middle of who-knows-where. Maybe it’s a throwback to our eviction from […]