Biotronics: The First Conscious Robots

The Biotronics Project was conceptualized by Joey Lawsin in 1988 with two basic objectives in mind: to design and create intuitive machines (IM) that look alive or with life and with consciousness. These IMs are collectively named Biotronics. They are sometimes called the Silver Species. This new group of synthetic living organisms can see, smell, taste, hear, feel, think, breed, fly, swim, create, and are aware of themselves and their surroundings. They die too. New smart robotic systems such as Neurotronics, Homotronics, Wise Sensors, and Inverse Matrix were invented and developed by Lawsin too to meet all the demands of his information materialization, sensoric perceptions and imaginations, and associative consciousness.

Sensoric Awareness

The First Biotronics: B.I.N.G.

Biotronics V2: K.I.M.

The project was first designed using the Lawsin Linkage, a double cantilever truss system with connecting elements (links) that form triangular frames. It is a structural mechanism that was developed to simulate the walking cadence of biotronics animals. The Links fulfill the following requirements:
1. It must carry out a walking cadence fluidly like an actual living animal's gait.
2. It can conquer any type of terrain obstacles from carpet floors to seabeds.
3. It can move in different directions with various range of actuated motion or R.O.A.M.
4. Its structure elements must be guided by nature's mathematics like geometry.
5. It can be integrated with the Arduino platform for micro-consciousness programming.

Then, the project was put together by combining the various stages of the process:
Phase 1: The Lawsin Linkage
Phase 2: The Led Indicator
Phase 3: The MicroServo
Phase 4: The Ultrasonic Sensor
Phase 5: The Piezo Speaker
Phase 6: The Stepper Motor
Phase 7: The First Biotronics

Finally, the proof of concept was delivered into actual physical reality using the Arduino microcontroller as the "brain"(neurotronics) and lego's gears and beams as the "body" (homotronics).

The Proof of Concept:

 

Stage 1: The Lawsin Linkage Structure:

Stage 2: The Homotronics Side:

Stage 3: The Neurotronics Side :

Stage 4: The Mathematics:

Stage 5: ZiZo, The Inverse Queue : 

An Intuitive Aneural Network

Stage 6: The Prototype: 

Stage 7: The First Conscious Robot:

Animated by Structural Algorithm

Animated by Computer Program

Self-Animated by Inscirption by Design

In his other book, Originemology, Lawsin argued that Consciousness is not a matter of being aware of one's self and one's environment, the two basic ingredients of consciousness as defined in Webster dictionary. He refuted these definitions based on his thought experiment known as the "The caveman in the Box Troika" and laboratory experiment known as "The Bowlingual Experiment" with two dogs named Zero; an Alaskan malamute and Peanut; a chihuahua as specimens.

In these experiments, he concluded that:
(1) An object is alive if it simply consumes energy. The energy is produced chemically without any personal interactions by the object. The object is simply animated by its own construction design through the power of its energy. However, the self-animation doesn't mean it is aware and conscious.
(2) An object is aware when it uses its sensors and alive when it is powered by energy. However, it is not conscious; and,
(3) An object is conscious when it acquires and uses information for itself.

To be conscious one must learn to match or pair what he senses - sees, smells hears, taste thinks - with a tag, a label, a definition, a description, or a name. This one to one correspondence is known as Associative Consciousness (Lawsin, 1988).

The final result of all these conclusions shows that life is more mechanical, chemical, instructional than biological. Thus, indeed, Life is more of chemistry and not biology.

Autognorics / ELFS / Gnos

Public Domain Notice: Copyright (c) 2000. All rights reserved. This article is part of a book entitled Biotronics: The Silver Species. Copies are welcome to be shared or distributed publicly as long proper citations are observed. Please cite as follows: The Biotronics Project, Joey Lawsin, 1988, USA.

"The Last Human on Earth will no longer be Human." ~ Joey Lawsin

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