1. Sodarace Ashley Wachs Comp 4640 April 24, 2006

2. What is Sodarace?  Sodarace, a collaborative project between the Queen Mary Department of Computer Science and London based digital arts company Soda Creative Ltd, allows humans worldwide to pit their human creativity against machine intelligence in an online Olympics competition to design robots that race over 2D terrians.  Humans, and artificial intelligence computer programs, use the BAFTA winning online Sodaplay constructor kit to create lifelike virtual racers out of masses and springs to race over terrains.

3. Sodarace  Began in November 2003  An online game that lets contestants build and race beasts  It is being used to try and beat humans against a variety of AI algorithms.

4. Objective of Sodarace  To construct a two dimensional creature that can travel over a certain type of terrain in the shortest possible time.  Allows one to build and race virtual robots

5. Sodarace  Step 1. Design your own 2-dimensional walker in SodaConstructor.SodaConstructor  Step 2. Upload it to a virtual terrain in SodaRace and see how you match up. SodaRace  Step 3. Optimize your creature with some AI magic or breed and evolve a new creature using the Wodka genetic algorithm (any algorithm can be used).Wodka  Step 4. Realize your brain is no match to AI.  Step 5. Continue having fun competing with other human intelligence walkers.

6. Sodarace- Wodka Algorithm  Wodka is the implementation of a genetic algorithm for breeding soda robots. It is designed as platform that allows configuration of the genetic algorithm in an easy and flexible way.  The idea is that wodka provides the infrastructure that is needed to breed soda robots, to allow you focusing on your ideas without having to think about technical details.

7. Sodarace  Let’s look at some examples and tutorials  www.sodarace.net www.sodarace.net