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March 13, 2006

Hide and Seek

A and B are two robots.
They are initially standing 100m apart.
The software of A says: maintain a distance of 10m from B.
The software of B says: maintain a distance of 5m from A.

Now A and B start moving towards each other, following their software. 90...50...30...20...15...12...11....10. They are now 10m apart.

Now B continues to move forward - to reach 5m. A's goal again begins to unsettle. It starts to move away from B. What started as a meeting turns into a chase.

A waste of energy by both. Only if B could understand A's goal or A could understand B's goal, they could stop the struggle.

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