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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Learning to Walk by Embedded Robotics

There's very few things as entertaining as watching either evolution computation or reinforcement learning teaching a simulated robot to walk. We did a study in simulation obviously that you create those creatures not just their controller but also their body. And what was interesting is that when you evolve the controller together with the body, you get movements that look natural because they're optimized for that physical setup.

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