Evolutionary History Book Series (2009)

Photo Credit: Paul Litherland

This series comprises of 5 books that capture each version of code created in developing the Anthropods for the Field Studies V2 project. The robots were coded in the assembler, a dead coding language. The books capture observations of the robots and how to improve their performance as well as anecdotes on how the robots would not work as the coder imagined. The book is about giving insight into how we make assumptions and assume things will work a certain way but reality is very different from what we would expect. 

The Bi Magnetotransis has completed 15 phases of evolution. The Quadra Magnetoconsumous has finished 13 generations of evolution. The Hexa Infraseekozoid, being the most complex, had to undergo 23 phases of evolution to have it begin to be able to mate with other robots. The Bounci Vicarioustransis is the simplest robot and has only had 3 generational evolutions. The Sidewind Externalreactozoid has had 10 phases of evolution to date.