| Check out this cool thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162505 Show HN: Visual A pathfinding and maze generation in Python * ME: (Vine Robots and Maze Algos): This would be neat to see applied to Vine Robots: https://youtu.be/eLVAMG_3fLg?t=153 --- Talk about the use of the pneumatic vine robots to nav rubble and caves etc - but if the vine robot could evaluate the terrain and use appropriate routing algo based on the nature of the terrain it was doing. they arent using vision necessarily in the vine robots - but if they could use terrain sensors that informed the best routing algo to use/accomplish goal that would be neat. Another interesting thing about this would be to apply it to where vine-style micro-trenchers could know the patter of the lattice that will best be needed to accomplish whatever the stated newton bracing requirement were - then you could plop relative light foot pads onto a celestial body - then have these vine into the surface in such a way where you can begin to attach larger objects and very easily build foundations to large space structures - plus, as it maps out - you have an exact map of what your mycelium -like base foundation look like. EDIT: And you could grow the foundation as need - however, imagine a series of tubes maybe by these vining robots - that are later filled in (the robots) with structural hardening material -- you vine your robots into the mountain in sequences - first do a large outer lattice - and structurally brace it with whatever material - then in the center space - vine into the core and fill those with explosives and tunnel. -- then you can snake through your exploded rubble - see whats up - and deliver cables and hoses through the vine to a forward location... A vine robot that tunnels - but its outer layer is a permeable filter and it has capillary features - but basically it unfurls into being a well and the outer material is expanded do to corrugations in the design allowing debris filters water to create a layer around the new pipe - and then capillaried up - or a pump in the core at the head of the water-wyrm. (I need to figure out how to make some of these -- I love them.) |