The Sounds of Robots and Autonomous Agents in the Wild is part of my PhD work, which explores the behaviours of robotics and intelligent agents in complex ecosystems and seeks to integrate them into existing biological communities. Using the domain of sound and filtered through the lens of soundscape ecology, I have designed a robotic agent to listen to an ecosystem and produce sound as though it is a new species, inhabiting the physical and acoustic space.
Wide view of the Rowdy Krause in the field. The Rowdy Krause is attached to one of the buildings at Close-up of the Rowdy Krause in the field at Byhaven på Sundholm
Sounds are evolved using a simulated vocal tract that is controlled by a neural network, learning from the sounds that it produces. Below is an early offline version of the Rowdy Krause’s vocalizations.