Article "Using artificial evolution to design bespoke surgical snakebots"
by Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
July 11, 2019
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
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Article "Using artificial evolution to design bespoke surgical snakebots"
by Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
July 11, 2019
Australian Centre for Robotic Vision
https://youtu.be/1zVG8wptOOI
Xenobots - the first “living robots”
Jan 14, 2020
"Team builds the first living robots"Quote:
Researchers used the Deep Green supercomputer cluster and an evolutionary algorithm to design new life-forms that could achieve an assigned task. Then they built them by combining together different biological tissues from Xenopus laevis embryos, hence the name Xenobots.
Credit:
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
Sam Kriegman, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin, and Josh Bongard
PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910837117
January 13, 2020
Xenobot on Wikipedia