Аннотация
The difficulties associated with designing, building
and controlling robots have led their development to a
stasis: applications are limited mostly to repetitive
tasks with predefined moves. Over the last few years we
have been trying to address this challenge through an
alternative approach: Rather than trying to control an
existing machine, or create a general-purpose robot, we
propose that both the morphology and the controller
should evolve at the same time. This process can lead
to the automatic design and fabrication of special
purpose mechanisms and controllers that achieve
specific short-term objectives. Here we provide a brief
review of three generations of our recent research,
underlying the robots shown on the cover of this issue:
Automatically designed static structures, automatically
designed and manufactured dynamic electromechanical
systems, and modular robots automatically designed
through a generative DNA-like encoding.
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