Monday, April 22, 2013
Evolving Soft Robots
Another build-up on Golem on a build-up of Sim's paper: "This crazy looking thing is a simulated robot, made up of two different kinds of muscles along with bones and soft tissue for structure. This robot wasn't designed, it was evolved over a thousand virtual generations to move as fast, as far, and as functionally as possible." Full news article @ IEEE Spectrum. See the research from Jeff Clune.
Labels: evolution, evolutionary robots, morphohology, robots
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Comparing shapes, understanding evolution
"The study of shape has intrigued some of the brightest minds of humanity, from Leonardo Da Vinci and Carl Friedrich Gauss to some of the top scientists of the modern era. [...]This is the topic addressed by the work of Boyer et al. (5) in PNAS, with a unique interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, archaeologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians." See commentary @ PNAS.
See also: Boyer DM, et al. (2011) Algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:18221–18226.
See also: Boyer DM, et al. (2011) Algorithms to automatically quantify the geometric similarity of anatomical surfaces. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:18221–18226.
Labels: evolution, morphohology
