Breedbot: An Edutainment Robotics System to Link Digital and Real World

The paper describes Breedbot an edutainment software and hardware system that could be used to evolve autonomous agents in digital (software) world and to transfer the evolved minds in physical agents (robots). The system is based on a wide variety of Artificial Life techniques (Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, User Guided Evolutionary Design and Evolutionary Robotics). An user without any computer programming skill can determine the robot behaviour. Breedbot was used as a didactic tool in teaching Evolutionary Biology and as a futuristic toy by several Science Centers. The digital side of Breedbot is downloadable from www.isl.unina.it/breedbot.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: KES
• Authors: Orazio Miglino, Onofrio Gigliotta, Michela Ponticorvo, Stefano Nolfi
• Keywords: Evolutionary, KES 2007, Paper Describes Breedbot, Teaching Evolutionary Biology