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With a few exceptions, today’s mobile robots, however complex, are not truly autonomous. At some time, they all require humans to supply them with energy and/or information; most also require other forms of assistance. In complete contrast, even the simplest animals are totally self-sufficient. We describe a current project1 which aims to construct autonomous robots with animal-like self-sufficiency both in terms of energy and information. The robots will live free on agricultural land, hunting and catching slugs, and fermenting the corpses to produce biogas, which will fuel the generator providing the robots with power.
This project is supported by an award from the EPSRC ROPA programme
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Kelly, I., Holland, O., Scull, M., McFarland, D. (1999). Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator. In: Floreano, D., Nicoud, JD., Mondada, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_37
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