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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…
Selecting Continuous Life-Like Cellular Automata for Halting Unpredictability: Evolving for Abiogenesis
Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard
Substantial efforts have been applied to engineer CA with desired emergent properties, such as supporting gliders. Recent work in continuous CA has generated a wide variety of comp…
Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata
Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard
Step size in continuous cellular automata (CA) plays an important role in the stability and behavior of self-organizing patterns. Continous CA dynamics are defined by formula very…
Glaberish: Generalizing the continuously-valued Lenia framework to arbitrary Life-like cellular automata
Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh Bongard
Recent work with Lenia, a continuously-valued cellular automata (CA) framework, has yielded 100s of compelling, bioreminiscent and mobile patterns. Lenia can be viewed as a c…
Empowered Neural Cellular Automata
Caitlin Grasso, Josh Bongard
Information-theoretic fitness functions are becoming increasingly popular to produce generally useful, task-independent behaviors. One such universal function, dubbed empowerment,…
Evolving Programmable Computational Metamaterials
Atoosa Parsa, Dong Wang, Corey S. O'Hern +3
Granular metamaterials are a promising choice for the realization of mechanical computing devices. As preliminary evidence of this, we demonstrate here how to embed Boolean logic g…