A team of researchers and engineers has built the first ever robotic system which can evolve its design over time.
A collaborative project between the University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich built a robot which produces successive generations of smaller robots. This ‘mother’ robot observes and tests small ‘child’ robots built from plastic cubes with internal motors. Without any human input, aside from a single overarching command to produce robots cable of movement, the system…
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