Severe Damage Recovery in Evolving Soft Robots through Differentiable Programming

no code implementations • 14 Jun 2022 • Kazuya Horibe, Kathryn Walker, Rasmus Berg Palm, Shyam Sudhakaran, Sebastian Risi

Biological systems are very robust to morphological damage, but artificial systems (robots) are currently not.

A Unified Substrate for Body-Brain Co-evolution

1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2022 • Sidney Pontes-Filho, Kathryn Walker, Elias Najarro, Stefano Nichele, Sebastian Risi

The genome of such a multicellular organism guides the development of its body from a single cell, including its control system.

Physical Neural Cellular Automata for 2D Shape Classification

1 code implementation • 14 Mar 2022 • Kathryn Walker, Rasmus Berg Palm, Rodrigo Moreno Garcia, Andres Faina, Kasper Stoy, Sebastian Risi

Materials with the ability to self-classify their own shape have the potential to advance a wide range of engineering applications and industries.

Classification

Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata

1 code implementation • 4 Feb 2021 • Kazuya Horibe, Kathryn Walker, Sebastian Risi

Our approach allows simulated soft robots that are damaged to partially regenerate their original morphology through local cell interactions alone and regain some of their ability to locomote.