Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

AI-designed metamachines run in the wild, recover from damage and transform into new shapes, according to recent studies. These new modular legged robots are said possess athletic intelligence and ...

Evolutionary algorithms represent a class of optimisation techniques inspired by the principles of biological evolution. These methods iteratively modify candidate solutions using operations analogous ...

Evolution is a trip. On the one hand, it’s a seemingly simple mechanism—those best fitted to their environment have more babies, while less fit individuals don’t reproduce as much, and their genes ...

McCormick Prof. Sam Kriegman and his lab assistant David Matthews recently developed a one-of-a-kind artificial intelligence program that builds a robot in seconds. This program is the first AI to be ...

As embodied AI moves from demos to deployment, my personal view is that the future will follow the evolutionary path. It better matches how technologies scale, how businesses work, and how our ...

Roboticists often copy nature, crafting humanoid robots for household chores, worm-style machines for crawling through tunnels and four-legged contraptions that look like cheetahs for running and ...

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have long provided a flexible framework for solving challenging optimisation problems by mimicking natural evolutionary processes. When combined with multitask ...