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Rollbot 2: Agile Locomotion by a Single-Actuator Spherical Robot
Jingxian Wang*, Chen Yu*, Sam Kriegman +1
Reducing actuator count simplifies robot hardware but also removes independent inputs for maneuvering. The original Rollbot steered by modulating a quasi-stable helical orbit, but…
Evolving Dexterous Robots from Scratch
Zihan Guo, Shuzhe Zhang, Muhan Li +2
Little is known about how to manually design agents capable of dexterous manipulation. Some design principles have been inferred from close examination of how animals manipulate ob…
ECo-MoE: Embodiment-Conditioned Mixture of Experts Increases the Evolvability of Robots
Yibin Wang, Muhan Li, Zihan Guo +1
In this paper, we introduce a model of evolution and learning in robots that co-optimizes a distribution of latent design vectors (genotypes) and a mixture of control experts (neur…
Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric
Jingxian Wang, Chen Yu, David Matthews +3
We introduce Phantom Twist, a type of single-propeller UAV designed to achieve low visibility through high-speed spinning and the exploitation of motion blur. We develop a two-stag…
Creating manufacturable blueprints for coarse-grained virtual robots
Zihan Guo, Muhan Li, Shuzhe Zhang +1
Over the past three decades, countless embodied yet virtual agents have freely evolved inside computer simulations, but vanishingly few were realized as physical robots. This is be…
Robots that redesign themselves through kinematic self-destruction
Chen Yu, Sam Kriegman
Every robot built to date was predesigned by an external process, prior to deployment. Here we show a robot that actively participates in its own design during its lifetime. Starti…