Actually, people are still writing different versions of Karel the Robot. Now there is GvR (Guido van Robot) that is a python nock off of Karel. And yes! it can be used as a Turing machine. We even had someone write an example of it doing binary addition. I must say, it's pretty cool to see a little robot move at light speed to do slow binary addition.
Maybe this is ironic, but the guy who invented Karel the Robot is non other than a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon. Clearly, he must be working on the DARPA project.
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Actually, people are still writing different versions of Karel the Robot. Now there is GvR (Guido van Robot) that is a python nock off of Karel. And yes! it can be used as a Turing machine. We even had someone write an example of it doing binary addition. I must say, it's pretty cool to see a little robot move at light speed to do slow binary addition.
Maybe this is ironic, but the guy who invented Karel the Robot is non other than a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon. Clearly, he must be working on the DARPA project.