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06/05/2023
Efficient automatic design of robots
Robots are notoriously difficult to design because of complex interdepen...
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05/29/2023
Universal Mechanical Polycomputation in Granular Matter
Unconventional computing devices are increasingly of interest as they ca...
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05/24/2023
Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata
Empowerment – a domain independent, information-theoretic metric – has p...
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05/20/2022
Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata
Step size in continuous cellular automata (CA) plays an important role i...
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04/27/2022
Empowered Neural Cellular Automata
Information-theoretic fitness functions are becoming increasingly popula...
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04/19/2022
Evolving Programmable Computational Metamaterials
Granular metamaterials are a promising choice for the realization of mec...
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04/15/2022
Selecting Continuous Life-Like Cellular Automata for Halting Unpredictability: Evolving for Abiogenesis
Substantial efforts have been applied to engineer CA with desired emerge...
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08/18/2021
A good body is all you need: avoiding catastrophic interference via agent architecture search
In robotics, catastrophic interference continues to restrain policy trai...
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03/08/2021
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals
Robots deployed at orders of magnitude different size scales, and that r...
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08/14/2020
Gaining environments through shape change
Many organisms, including various species of spiders and caterpillars, c...
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11/23/2019
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs
The manual design of soft robots and their controllers is notoriously ch...
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10/30/2019
Sim2real gap is non-monotonic with robot complexity for morphology-in-the-loop flapping wing design
Morphology of a robot design is important to its ability to achieve a st...
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10/15/2019
Embodiment dictates learnability in neural controllers
Catastrophic forgetting continues to severely restrict the learnability ...
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08/03/2019
Word2vec to behavior: morphology facilitates the grounding of language in machines
Enabling machines to respond appropriately to natural language commands ...
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05/22/2019
Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots
A robot's mechanical parts routinely wear out from normal functioning an...
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12/16/2017
Morphology dictates a robot's ability to ground crowd-proposed language
As more robots act in physical proximity to people, it is essential to e...
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11/20/2017
How morphological development can guide evolution
Organisms result from multiple adaptive processes occurring and interact...
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11/17/2017
Evolving soft locomotion in aquatic and terrestrial environments: effects of material properties and environmental transitions
Designing soft robots poses considerable challenges: automated design ap...
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06/19/2017