Hello, I just thought some people here would be interested in seeing a simulation that I put together a while ago on this subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvEywP8t12II'm not too familiar with darwin bots but there are some differences that I picked up on right away.
I guess the biggest one is that I do not use a coding-based DNA. Instead, my DNA specifies the structure, connectivity, and parameters of the perceptron network. My brains are therefore automatically robust to small mutations because of the invariance in the sigmoidal activation function.
However, compared to Darwinbots I think I am working on a much lower level and can probably accomplish less elaborate tasks per parameter.
The sensory modalities are also a little different: my bots can "smell density of bots" and "hear speed of bots", and also sense the colors, but on a little lower resolution.
Oh and I don't have pretty graphs
I should check out darwin bots sometime
Cheers,
meph