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What is special about  C. Elegans is that they are among the best understood animal. Its whole genome was sequenced and it is the only creature to have had its neural system completely simulated. It has 302 neurons hard wired with around 8000 connections. We have a complete map of C. Elegan's admittedly simple, neural circuit created by  [https://http://openworm.org/ Open Worm Project] .This model has been used to implement the worm's brain in a number of ways  including building an artificial version of the worm's brain and building devices seem to behave like the worm. The researches concerning how the neural system of C. Elegans uploaded to a computer to solve a problem and mimiking digital evolutionary process of C. Elegans using deep reinforcement learning in  in a nature-like simulation are the main inspirations for my project. You will see details of these researches in my references and research notes section. Below is a simulation of worms body interacted with fluid environment around it.

Wiliam Grey Walter's well known autonomous robot works (tortoises) was another inspiration for me. He built some of the first artificial animals in 1940s. He was a neurophysiologists and developed these robot tortoises using purely analog electronics to simulate brain process. His robots responded touch and light.  

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