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JITTERBUG: YOUR FIRST ROBOT
Once upon a time, robots were either the fantastic, fully functional artificial humans of popular fiction (e.g., C3PO, the Terminator, Robby the Robot, Johnny 5) or the mundane workhorses of industry (e.g., discorporate robotic arms riveting Ford frames and powder-coating jet turbines). In either case, they were the expensive territory of PhDs and film producers. Fortunately, in the last two decades there’s been a surge in small, cheap, robust little robots: BEAM robotics.1
BEAM enthusiasts focus on designing small robots without general microprocessors. Instead of analyzing their surroundings and incoming stimuli (like higher-order animals), BEAM robots behave like simple multicellular organisms: Stimuli (like ...
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