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Toward Controlling Biology with Language:Offline Learning of Prompt-Conditioned Interventions for Cells, Organoids, and Biobots
Nam H. Le, Douglas Blackiston, Michael Levin +1
Artificial intelligence increasingly serves as a natural-language interface to complex technical systems, letting people accomplish sophisticated tasks by describing what they want…
The scaling of goals via homeostasis: an evolutionary simulation, experiment and analysis
Leo Pio-Lopez, Johanna Bischof, Jennifer V. LaPalme +1
All cognitive agents are composite beings. Specifically, complex living agents consist of cells, which are themselves competent sub-agents navigating physiological and metabolic sp…
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field
D. Blackiston, S. Kriegman, J. Bongard +1
Advances in science and engineering often reveal the limitations of classical approaches initially used to understand, predict, and control phenomena. With progress, conceptual cat…
Memory via Temporal Delays in weightless Spiking Neural Network
Hananel Hazan, Simon Caby, Christopher Earl +2
A common view in the neuroscience community is that memory is encoded in the connection strength between neurons. This perception led artificial neural network models to focus on c…
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Douglas Blackiston +4
Robots deployed at orders of magnitude different size scales, and that retain the same desired behavior at any of those scales, would greatly expand the environments in which the r…
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs
Sam Kriegman, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan Shah +5
The manual design of soft robots and their controllers is notoriously challenging, but it could be augmented---or, in some cases, entirely replaced---by automated design tools. Mac…
Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots
Sam Kriegman, Stephanie Walker, Dylan Shah +3
A robot's mechanical parts routinely wear out from normal functioning and can be lost to injury. For autonomous robots operating in isolated or hostile environments, repair from a…