Download / Golem@Home

The Golem@Home Project is a screensaver that allows you to experience evolutionary robotics on your own computer at home. Once you complete the installation, click the right mouse button on your desktop to activate desktop properties dialog, and select "Golem" from the list under the Screen Saver tab. Thereafter, whenever Golem is activated it will continue evolving bodies and brains of electromechanical robots, and animate some on the screen.

If you provide the program with a list of IP addresses of other screensavers, then occasionally (say, once in a week or two), if a network connection is available, one or few evolved creatures might migrate from your computer to another Golem screen saver, and some new ones might migrate into your Golem program*. This program does not need to connect to a server to run. It will work fine in an isolated environment. You can key-in IP addresses of other participants you know from the eGroups and allow your programs to echange material, or you can directly save and load Golem files, and exchange them by E-mail.

To download the installation package for Golem 2.45, click here Win95/98/NT (740K). After download, unzip the file into a directory and click on "Setup.exe". After installation, right-click your desktop and select "Golem" as your active screensaver. If you are missing DLLs, and before e-mailing questions, please check out our frequently asked questions (faq) page.

*For security and privacy considerations Golem will exchange only Robot data with other Golem programs, and will not receive or transmit executable files. In any case, you may use the advanced settings communication tab to disable incoming communications or all communications entirely, and to specify which servers it could connect to.

Revised: November 11, 2006 .