Computer-aided creativity in robot design Researchers' new system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types Date: November 30, 2020 ...

A novel MIT-developed system makes it possible to design robot shapes and determine its optimal ability to traverse a particular terrain. The simulation-based system is called RoboGrammar and is a ...

It’s a tool from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) that aims to let people design, simulate, and then build simple robots with a “3D print, then fold ...

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The robot is then put into a simulation of the terrain to ensure it operates in a way that makes sense. Naturally, the system isn’t yet ready to enable computers to design their own robots ...

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The computer tested each successive generation of primitive robots to distinguish which could crawl the farthest. Then, the program itself refined the robots' design, replicating the process of ...

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RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system, developed at MIT, creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more ...