Year: 2022

PROFESSOR HOD LIPSON and others have taken a unique slant to evolving artificial life: keep the limited human imagination out of the process and let the physical universe effect evolution in very surprising and original ways. It is only a matter of time before computer viruses go mainstream with this approach: no programmer input in these mutations. View in LinkedIn

HOD LIPSON "has co-authored over 200 papers and speaks frequently at high-profile venues such as TED and the National Academies. Hod directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative." https://lnkd.in/drCTazE View in LinkedIn

NO SURPRISE. "Evolution dwarfs even the best team of engineers." https://lnkd.in/dtVFGBG View in LinkedIn

CREATIVE MACHINES LAB. "We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines – automatically. Our work is inspired from biology, as we seek new biological concepts for engineering and new engineering insights into biology." https://lnkd.in/dWxNW_q View in LinkedIn

OPEN SOURCE. "Eureqa is a Machine Intelligence™ application that automates much of the heavy lifting inherent in analytics and data science. Leveraging automated evolutionary algorithms, Eureqa churns through your data to create accurate predictive models in minutes rather than months." (Hod Lipson). https://lnkd.in/dxaxRNu View in LinkedIn

SOFT ROBOT EVOLUTION VIDEO. https://lnkd.in/dD-uMQK View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS DESIGN CHALLENGE. "Biological life is in control of its own means of reproduction, which generally involves complex, autocatalysing chemical reactions. But this autonomy of design and manufacture has not yet been realized artificially." https://lnkd.in/dJJ9HmD View in LinkedIn

CHALLENGE METHOD. "Here we report the results of a combined computational and experimental approach in which simple electromechanical systems are evolved through simulations from basic building blocks (bars, actuators and artificial neurons); the `fittest' machines (defined by their locomotive ability) are then fabricated robotically using rapid manufacturing technology." https://lnkd.in/dJJ9HmD View in LinkedIn

CHALLENGE RESULT. "We thus achieve autonomy of design and construction using evolution in a `limited universe' physical simulation coupled to automatic fabrication." https://lnkd.in/dJJ9HmD View in LinkedIn

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