Coevolutionary Robotics design Jordan Pollack, Hod Lipson, Pablo Funes

Coevolutionary Robotics Jordan Pollack, Hod Lipson, Pablo Funes, Sevan Ficici, Greg Hornby Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization Department of Computer Science Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts 02454 USA {pollack, lipson, funes, sevan, hornby}@cs.brandeis.edu www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu Abstract We address the fundamental issue of fully automated design (FAD) and construction of inexpensive robots and their controllers. Rather than seek an intelligent general purpose robot — the humanoid robot, ubiquitous in today’s research as the long term goal — we are developing the information technology that can design and fabricate special-purpose mechanisms and controllers to achieve specific short-term objectives. These robots will be constructed from reusable sensors,...