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So cute! Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials (muscle, bone, etc.)
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Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials (muscle, bone, etc.)
Evolving AI Lab
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How evolutionary algorithms and generative encodings can evolve diverse, functional soft robot bodies made of multiple materials.
More videos: jeffclune.com/videos.html Here we evolve the bodies of soft robots made of multiple materials (muscle, bone, & support tissue) to move quickly. Evolution produces a diverse array of fun, wacky, interesting, but ultimately functional soft robots. Enjoy! This video accompanies the following paper: Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials and a Powerful Generative Encoding. Cheney, MacCurdy, Clune, & Lipson. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2013. PDF: jeffclune.com/publications/2013_Softbots_GECCO.pdf The work was performed by members of the Cornell Creative Machines Lab: creativemachines.cornell.edu and the Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Wyoming: JeffClune.com The simulator we used is called VoxCad, by Jon Hiller: VoxCad.comWhy it's here
1 person recommends thisWhat people say. Recommended as an interesting demonstration of evolutionary robotics and generative neural network encodings.
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On “So cute! Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials (muscle, bone, etc.)”
If you by "last" mean the red-headed stumbling elephant baby, they were showing off favourite results, not fastest results (see 2:11).
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