Three generations of automatically designed robots
Artificial Life
Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots
Artificial Life
Evolutionary fabrication: the co-evolution of form and formation
Evolutionary fabrication: the co-evolution of form and formation
Automated discovery and optimization of large irregular tensegrity structures
Computers and Structures
GECCO '96 Proceedings of the 1st annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Robot-assisted rapid prototyping for ice structures
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Heterogeneous objects modelling and applications
Automated re-invention of a previously patented optical lens system using genetic programming
EuroGP'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Genetic Programming
Evolutionary fabrication: a system of autonomous invention
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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Few evolved designs are subsequently manufactured into physical objects - the vast majority remain on the virtual drawing board. We suggest two sources of this "Fabrication Gap". First, by being descriptive rather than prescriptive, evolutionary design runs the risk of evolving interesting yet unbuildable objects. Secondly, in a wide range of interesting and high-complexity design domains, such as dynamic and highly flexible objects, the gap between simulation and reality is too large to guarantee consilience between design and object. We suggest that one compelling alternative to evolutionary design in these complex domains is to avoid both simulation and description, and instead evolve artifacts directly in the real world. In this paper we introduce EvoFab: a fully embodied evolutionary fabricator, capable of producing novel objects (rather than virtual designs) in situ. EvoFab thereby opens the door to a wide range of incredibly exciting evolutionary design domains.