Letting Robots Build Their Own Bodies And Make Their Own Minds

Letting Robots Build Their Own Bodies And Make Their Own Minds 

A 3 minutes presentation about my PhD research on the co-evolution of morphology and behavior in swarm robotics.

#robotics   #swarmrobotics   #swarms   #coevolution   #morphologicalcomputation      #3dprinting   #geneticalgorithms   #evolution   #artificialintelligence   #artificialevolution   #jessicameyer   #uwe   #brl   #bristol   #3mt   #epuck  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTx1itvOjKg&feature=share

Very cool! Would love to work with them.

Very cool! Would love to work with them.

Festo 

#robotics   #ants   #swarmrobotics   #swarms   #festo   #biomimicry  

Originally shared by Daniel Estrada

> For the BionicANTs, Festo has not only transferred the delicate anatomy of ants, but also their cooperative behaviour to the world of technology. Like their natural role models, they communicate with each other and work together according to clear rules to solve a common task.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFsMMToxxls
More: http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/14252.htm
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-festo-bionicants-tasks.html

via Jeff Earls and Phys.org 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFsMMToxxls

#robotics #swarms

#robotics   #swarms  

Originally shared by 卢文杰

100 dancing robots.

Bristol Bright Night

Bristol Bright Night

I am finding even more posts mentioning me. This one is related to the short talk I gave at the Bristol Bright Night 2014 and my supervisor's Robots vs. Animals talk at the same night.

How do ants build bridges? What can you teach a robot? Could a robot be more like a bee? Come along to see how studying the behaviour of swarms is inspiring engineers in state-of-the-art robotics. Prof. Alan Winfield from the University of the West of England and Ben Coleman from Bristol Zoo will demonstrate how swarming behaviour in the natural world is helping engineers to develop robots that can solve problems and work collaboratively.

We are also part of “Bite Size Research” with a short talk by Jessica Meyer on designing robots for swarm behaviours (7.30pm) and another by Shane Windsor on bird flight and aerial robotics, both in the Watershed.

#robotics   #swarmrobotics   #bristolbrightnight   #bristol   #brl   #uwe   #alanwinfield   #robotsvsanimals   #animals   #swarms   #jessicameyer   
http://robotsvsanimals.net/2014/09/23/bristol-bright-night-robots-vs-animals-talk/