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Anibots – MetaDevo

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It's been well over a decade since I finished a Cognitive Architectures course at MIT (9.364) under the late professor Whitman Richards. My final project was a little thing called "Agent Collaboration Using Anigrafs." Anigrafs were a pedagogical cognitive architecture that Richards defined. I wrote some code to implement Anigrafs and hooked it to simulated robots, which I called "Anibots." What follows is essentially my 2008 final report to Prof. Richards. I noticed several years later that he published Anigrafs: Experiments in Cooperative Cognitive Architecture as a book from MIT Press. TLDR: Identical robots can cooperate if they use a type of mental network that votes (with the Condorcet method) on what behavior to do next. The development goal is to achieve collaboration of situated agents to perform shared tasks and/or goals.