Evolution of Generative Design Systems for Modular Physical Robots
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TITLE: Generative Representations for the Automated Design of Modular Physical Robots
2 ABSTRACT The field of evolutionary robotics has demonstrated the ability to automatically design the morphology and controller of simple physical robots through synthetic evolutionary processes. However, it is not clear if variation-based search processes can attain the complexity of design necessary for practical engineering of robots. Here we demonstrate an automatic design system that prod...
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