The ICFP contest from 2004 [0] was a bit like what you're talking about. Rather than a bot, though, the submission was a description for a state machine that e

The ICFP contest from 2004 [0] was a bit like what you're talking about. Rather than a bot, though, the submission was a description for a state machine that each ant would follow. [0] https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants.html https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants...