1 code implementation • 23 Nov 2019 • Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan Shah, Hannah Steele, Gabrielle Branin, Michael Levin, Josh Bongard, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
The manual design of soft robots and their controllers is notoriously challenging, but it could be augmented---or, in some cases, entirely replaced---by automated design tools.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2019 • Sam Kriegman, Stephanie Walker, Dylan Shah, Michael Levin, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh Bongard
We found that, especially in the case of "deep insult", such as removal of all four of the robot's legs, the damaged machine evolves shape changes that not only recover the original level of function (locomotion) as before, but can in fact surpass the original level of performance (speed).
