Schematic of Thinking Machine Brain Map (2008)

Chalk on blackboard, 8 ft x 4 ft

This is a drawing on a blackboard that was used to map out the core ideas that the program for the Field Studies V1 robots had to embody in their design. This blackboard drawing became the source material for a lecture explaining how the system works. The artificial life algorithm is theoretically based and was never actually coded as a robot. It is really a drawing to push the limits of psychological ideas to take into account the creation of an artificial being that lives in a community of robots.