The Evolution of Robotics

Whyle: We create a digital version of every robot produced inside a simulation in a computer, and we allow this virtual population of robots to evolve. To mimic natural selection, we score these robots on the ability to conduct a task, and then we use these scores to selectively decide which robots get to reproduce. The reproduction mechanism mixes the digital d and a of the chosen parent robots to create a new blue print for a child robot that inherits some of the characteristics of it from its parents, but occasionally also exhibits some new ones. And by repeating the cycle of selection and reproduction over and over again, we hope that we can breed successive generations of robots - just like is often observed in biological