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alpha0  ·  4956 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism
I posted the original source as it was far more detailed.

Here is your video :)

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-robots-validating-hamilt...





mk  ·  4955 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Thanks! They are much smaller than I imagined. I like the term 'foraging robots'. I'd like to see robots foraging for trash alongside the roads.
alpha0  ·  4955 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The more I think about this, the more annoyed I get. For example, how do they pass genes? IFF they needed to model a physical phenomena (such as fluid dynamics) that would be in effect 'free' with a physical model but soak their cpus, then fine, use physical objects. But for those toy thingies? Frankly, makes you question other aspects of their approach ..

(btw: got a good chuckle seeing c++ and mySql on the bookshelf ;)