Quantum Robots for Teenagers

Abstract

Extending the ideas of quantum Braitenberg vehicles from (A. Raghuvanshi, 2006), we present here a family of Lego robots controlled by multiple-valued quantum circuits. The robots have at most 6 degrees of freedom (motors) and 6 sensors. Their basic architecture is a generalization of robots from (Ch. Brawn et al, 2006) to more versatile multiple-valued quantum automata (simulated in software). We believe that building robots with "quantum brains" is an excellent future application of quantum computing and now it helps students to learn principles of quantum circuits. We present a one-year project in "quantum robotics for teenagers". Our project brings research and educational perspectives, which are both presented in this paper.