{"id":402,"date":"2026-02-12T21:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:28:02","slug":"robotic-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/?page_id=402","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive robotic AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Source code: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/donkarlo\/nd_robotic_project\">https:\/\/github.com\/donkarlo\/nd_robotic_project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Life is the active resistance against the collapse of equilibrium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong># Goal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project aims to empower a flock of aerial swarms to continuously migrate together in search of energy sources (i.e., to recharge their solar batteries\u2014analogous to food) in order to continuously maintain both individual and<br \/>\ncollective homeostasis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To achieve this goal, the group must establish an organic relationship with humans and the surrounding environment,<br \/>\nenabling bidirectional information exchange through communication, thereby benefiting both parties mutually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The methodology is grounded in Active Inference, as proposed by Karl Friston. According to this theory, living systems<br \/>\ncontinuously act to minimize surprise by estimating and reducing a latent quantity known as free energy. In this<br \/>\nframework, agents maintain their viability by keeping themselves within expected states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project is further based on the axiom that any action\u2014whether mental or physical\u2014performed by an individual robot or<br \/>\nby the collective inevitably incurs energetic cost and structural wear. Consequently, the ongoing responsibility of each<br \/>\nagent, whether biological or artificial, is to minimize surprise (i.e., free energy) while compensating for energy loss<br \/>\nand environmental perturbations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source code: https:\/\/github.com\/donkarlo\/nd_robotic_project Life is the active resistance against the collapse of equilibrium. # Goal This project aims to empower a flock of aerial swarms to continuously migrate together in search of energy sources (i.e., to recharge their solar batteries\u2014analogous to food) in order to continuously maintain both individual and collective homeostasis. To achieve this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":440,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/633"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}