An AI used to build artificial neural networks can also create autonomous robot bodies with remarkable speed
It’s not quite time to panic about just anybody being able to create the Terminator while waiting at the bus stop: as reported in a recent study, the robots are simple machines that scoot along in straight lines without doing more complex tasks. But with more work, the method could democratize robot design, says study author Sam Kriegman, a computer scientist and engineer at Northwestern University.
The method uses a version of simulated evolution to create robots that can do a specific task—in this case, forward locomotion. Previously, creating evolved robots involved generating random variations, testing them, refining the best performers with new variations and testing those versions again. That requires a lot of computing power, Kriegman says.
To see if the simulations worked in practice, the researchers built examples of their best-performing robot by 3-D printing a mold of the design and filling it with silicone. They pumped air into small voids in the shape to simulate muscles contracting and expanding. The resulting robots, each about the size of a bar of soap, crept along like blocky little cartoon characters.
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