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I am interested in doing some experiments with ad-hoc, robotic teamwork, and social behavior. I am currently working on a design for a low-cost, robotic base that could carry fairly significant processing horsepower, and yet still be compact, and relatively low power. Above is a prototype I whipped up in the home shop, for a robot named "Scooter". I plan to start out with mounting the bot-stack to it, and then seeing where that takes me.

My current plan for ad-hoc socialization, is to use a networking protocol like 802.11b, and build a module for doing automatic, ad-hoc, proximity networking of the robots. So, when two bots come within range of each other, they can immediately dialog, and share information about shared tasks or goals.

For now, I am just working on getting the basic mechanics and the 802.11b board working and then I can see where that leads me.