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A system in which soft robots “evolve” to walk or climb

• ed 5y ago
  Very cool! It might be hard to imagine applications for this, but one could be Xenobots, which are soft robots made from living cells. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-frogs-xenopus.amp.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-f...
• kris-s 5y ago
  Fabulous animations, I hope this means we're close to applying these genetic algorithm techniques to soft robots that we can actually build.
• clavicat 5y ago
  I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
  • ehnto 5y ago
    Can you explain why it makes you feel that way?
    • smaddock 5y ago
      Their comment is in reference to Hayao Miyazaka's thoughts on a particular AI-based animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc
• jaytaylor 5y ago
  Archive link: https://archive.md/F9ehg https://archive.md/F9ehg
• wbobeirne 5y ago
  I remember "playing" BoxCar2D[1] for hours as a kid, unfortunately Flash has done away with it. Looks like there have been some JS-based spiritual successors though[2]. 1. http://boxcar2d.com/ http://boxcar2d.com/ 2. https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/ https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
• meta-level 5y ago
  I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned Karl Sims Evolved Virtual Creatures yet (https://karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html https://karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html).
• wubbert 5y ago
  I don't think it's right to computer simulations "robots".
  • renox 5y ago
    Especially since this kind of software also use any kind of imperfection in the simulated world..
• cyral 5y ago
  Reminds me of this “evolution simulator” series a YouTuber made years ago: https://youtu.be/GOFws_hhZs8 https://youtu.be/GOFws_hhZs8