[HN Gopher] See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
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       See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
        
       Author : DrNuke
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2021-12-18 14:57 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | jaytaylor wrote:
       | Archive link: https://archive.md/F9ehg
        
       | clavicat wrote:
       | I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
        
       | ed wrote:
       | Very cool! It might be hard to imagine applications for this, but
       | one could be Xenobots, which are soft robots made from living
       | cells.
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       | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-f...
        
       | wbobeirne wrote:
       | I remember "playing" BoxCar2D[1] for hours as a kid,
       | unfortunately Flash has done away with it. Looks like there have
       | been some JS-based spiritual successors though[2].
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       | 1. http://boxcar2d.com/
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       | 2. https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
        
       | kris-s wrote:
       | Fabulous animations, I hope this means we're close to applying
       | these genetic algorithm techniques to soft robots that we can
       | actually build.
        
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