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Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection
Topic: Science 7:53 am EST, Feb  1, 2010

Dario Floreano and Laurent Keller:

Darwin suggested that adaptation and complexity could evolve by natural selection acting successively on numerous small, heritable modifications. But is this enough? Here, we describe selected studies of experimental evolution with robots to illustrate how the process of natural selection can lead to the evolution of complex traits such as adaptive behaviours. Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism. In all cases this occurred via selection in robots controlled by a simple neural network, which mutated randomly.

Kacie Kinzer:

I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it?

More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself?

To answer these questions, I built robots.

Jay Keasling:

We have got to the point in human history where we simply do not have to accept what nature has given us.

Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection



 
 
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