Brain and body develop together (Image: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Rex)
WHAT if a robot – brain, body and all – could be born and then develop in a similar way to a human baby?
Instead of a mother, the robot would come out of a printer, in its entirety. “The end game is to evolve robots in simulation, hit print, and watch them walk out of a 3D printer,” says Jeffrey Clune, who heads the HyperNEAT project at Cornell University’s Creative Machines Lab in Ithaca, New York.
“The end game is to evolve robots in simulation, hit print, and watch them walk out of a 3D printer”…
