Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials

Here we evolve the bodies of soft robots made of multiple materials (muscle, bone, & support tissue) to move quickly. Evolution produces a diverse array of fun, wacky, interesting, but ultimately functional soft robots. Enjoy!

This video accompanies the following paper:
Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials and a Powerful Generative Encoding. Cheney, MacCurdy, Clune, & Lipson. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 2013.

PDF: http://jeffclune.com/publications/201...

The work was performed by:
Nick Cheney,
Rob MacCurdy,
Jeff Clune,
and Hod Lipson
of the Cornell Creative Machines Lab: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu
and the Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Wyoming: http://JeffClune.com

The simulator we used is called VoxCad,
created by Jon Hiller: http://www.VoxCad.com

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