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

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 4693))

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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.

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  1. Department of Relational Sciences ”G.Iacono”, University of Naples ”Federico II”, Naples, Italy

    Orazio Miglino & Michela Ponticorvo

  2. Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive, Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    Orazio Miglino, Onofrio Gigliotta & Stefano Nolfi

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

    Onofrio Gigliotta

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Bruno Apolloni

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Lakhmi Jain

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Miglino, O., Gigliotta, O., Ponticorvo, M., Nolfi, S. (2007). Breedbot: An Edutainment Robotics System to Link Digital and Real World. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_10

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