I still mourn for Split, but I keep going. It's just part of the obsession and a fact of life, or artificial life that is. I have heard women say that men will never understand what it feels like to give life, but I've seen fully-grown men talk all cutesy urging their little bot to run a maze. I haven't met a robot builder to date that I didn't think was a little weird, myself included. I conclude that it must be the torture of building things that never seem to live up to the expectations of the real world.
Outsiders never seem to be able to grasp the complexity of building robots.
Implying that anything else was just not good enough. It is a selfless activity and I applaud all robot makers big and small. To all the makers and the ones we have loved and lost.