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A team led by Professor Sam Kriegman has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch.
Watch AI generate a completely new robot from scratch.
A team led by Professor Sam Kriegman has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers gave the system a simple prompt: Design a robot that can walk across a flat surface. While it took nature billions of years to evolve the first walking species, the new algorithm compressed evolution to lightning speed—designing a successfully walking robot in mere seconds.
AI designing a walking robot in seconds.
The inside of the robot contains "air muscles," as shown on the left.
David Matthews pumps air into a robot, causing it to walk.
Using the AI-designed blueprint, a 3D printer prints molds for the robots.
Sam Kriegman shows one of the robots.
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