Transcript Evolutionary Robotics and Open- Ended Design Automation Hod Lipson, Cornell University

Evolutionary Robotics and OpenEnded Design Automation
Hod Lipson, Cornell University
• How do people design things?
• How does nature design things?
• “Can a computer ultimately
augment or replace human
invention?”
References
• Lipson, H. "Evolutionary Robotics and Open-Ended Design
Automation." Biomimetics: Biologically Inspired Technologies. Ed.
Yoseph Bar-Cohen. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006.
• Lipson H. (2004) "How to Draw a Straight Line Using a GP:
Benchmarking Evolutionary Design Against 19th Century Kinematic
Synthesis", Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference, Late Breaking Paper, GECCO 2004
• Lipson H., Pollack J. B., 2000, “Automatic design and Manufacture
of Robotic Lifeforms”, Nature 406, pp. 974-978
• Evolution of Machines: The Golem Project
http://demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/index.html
• Generative Representations for Design Automation
http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/pr/evo_design/evo_design.html