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 My robot is equipped with wheels, on board processor, voltage regulator, batteries, distance sensor, color sensor, thermo sensor which allows it to locomote in a snakelike manner, find food sources (bacteria) and avoid heat. My agent wants to achieve staying alive as long as possible. Finding bacteria and avoiding heat helps it to stay alive.
+The nematode worm C. elegans is a very simple organism with some moderately complex behavior. Its primitive behaviors are feeding, reproduction and locomotion and it exhibits complex behavior such as smell/taste, touch, slight response to light, sensing temperature, robust escape responses and rudimentary learning. 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. [https://http://openworm.org/ Open Worm Project]
-C. elegans are nematodes about 1 mm in length, and lives in the soil, especially rotting vegetation, in many parts of the world. Its average life span is about 2-3 weeks.
-It has a nervous system with a ‘brain’ (the circumpharyngeal nerve ring). It exhibits behavior and is even capable of rudimentary learning. Neural structures include sensing organs in the head which responses to taste, smell, temperature and touch—and although C. elegans has no eyes, it can respond slightly to light. Caenorhabditis elegans is very well studied. Their whole genome was sequenced and it is the only creature to have had its neural system completely simulated. [https://http://openworm.org/ Open Worm Project]
 Here are some microscopy images and videos I took. (will be updated shortly)