Path forward
That's it! I will build my own Ghenghis. At the end of Rodney Brooks' book, there is a pretty detailed explanation of the functioning of this first insect-like robot. It comes pretty close to my ideas of a set of sensors and actors and some network-like data processing in between. It is evolutionary in that sense that you can start by implementing simple functions like standing up and moving forward, and then later implementing obstacle avoidance and searching.
Of course, the next step would be to invent a Software that would figure out by itself what it can do with these actors... Probably need to add some more sensors then to give more feedback from the environment.
But that is for the Future, first I need to get the basics up and running.
While checking for Ghenghis construction kits without success, found the following interesting Website on Ghenghis and other similar robots (in German): http://www.u-he.com/ki/13-embodiement.html
He believes that robotics will become a similarly important domain over the next years like the PCs did twenty years ago:
Auf mich wirkt diese Entwicklung genauso wie der erste Computer, den ich mir vor beinahe zwanzig Jahren gekauft hatte. – Das Wissen um Methoden und Strategien einer technologischen Schlüssel-domäne – dafür halte ich die Robotik – wird schon in jugendlichen Generationen Verbreitung finden. Dies begründet vielleicht meine Auffassung, daß die Robotik in wenigen Jahren ein wichtigerer Markt und gesellschaftlicher Faktor werden wird als die PC-Technik.
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