Create and Build your Dream home In Minecraft Luis Quintanilla

Utilizing Minecraft and Mods, virtual representations of the real world can be created to teach autonomous agents how to navigate and perform tasks in this virtual environment. Virtual models can be used by physical agents, like Boston Dynamics bots, to implement the tasks and instructions learned from the virtual models. This allows us to imagine the day when we could create and construct our home within a very short time frame using autonomous artificial agents. Minecraft Servers

Minecraft is so hard to describe. Is it a game or is it an educational tool? At first I didn't get it. I watched my younger siblings play this game endlessly, always looking for ways to improve their lives. Then it was purchased by Microsoft and, since then, it has remained relatively untouched. Instead of putting it aside, Microsoft has expanded across more platforms and loaded it with numerous new features like an education edition and cross-platform play. Redstone is used to build Minecraft houses, cities, and even basic circuit models. Furthermore, as the project is programmable users can create modifications, also known as Mods to enhance the capabilities of the default.

Dynamic Mapping

It's great to build an imaginary world but what about the real world? Are we able to model the real world? A few months ago, I came across a project by the New York Public Library which produced topographically precise Minecraft maps using old map scans and Python scripts. Although maps from the past aren't always accurate, we can only hope that modern mapping practices can provide more details and data. This project demonstrates that it is possible to simulate real world conditions in a virtual space with the right data.

Project Malmo

In addition to the obvious advantages of a model that is accurate, it also provides a starting point to train autonomous agents to navigate through this environment. Project Malmo is a valuable tool to assist in this process. Project Malmo, an artificial intelligence platform designed for experimentation and research that was developed on Minecraft, was released to the public by Microsoft Research in 2015. The project is cross-platform and agents can be developed using Python, Lua or C#.

While the advantages of Project Malmo aside from the pedagogical exercise may not be apparent however, this project is extremely beneficial. Its cost is not only in terms of cost, but also the time required to construct physical autonomous robots can be expensive. It can be expensive in the event that they fail or fail to function during field testing. Therefore a more effective solution could be to simulate the mobility and navigation of these physical autonomous agents in a real world scenario using virtual environments. Minecraft Servers

Manual Labor

Once we've been trained, we need to identify or develop the physical agents that can perform the task and follow instructions based on training performed in the virtual environments. There have been recent demonstrations of agents that may be able of handling such tasks. Boston Dynamics is one of these agents. For a long time, Boston Dynamics has been creating anthropomorphic and zoomorphic robots that perform amazing feats. It is possible to conclude that, if a model has been trained in a real-world context, these physical agents can be used for tasks such as building a house.

The idea of a robot building a house is not too abstract. In March of 2017, several reports suggested that a home in Russia was built in under 24 hours using 3-D printing technology. Although the house was pre-designed and the robot arm used to build it was not mobile but its capabilities could be extended through a trained model executed by sophisticated physical autonomous agents like the ones made by Boston Dynamics.