Liquid metal robotics: a new category of soft robotics on the horizon

Evolutionary Robotics : Coping with Environmental Change { Category : Evolutionary Robotics ( ER ) {

In this paper an evolutionary method consisting of encoding a set of local adaptation rules that synapses obey while a robot freely moves in the environment is compared to standard evolution of xed-weight control networks. The results show that evolutionary adaptive controllers can adapt on-line without additional evolutionary training to strong environmental changes where instead the performan...

The 2015 Soft Robotics Competition

september 2016 • Ieee rObOtICs & AUtOmAtION mAGAZINe • model checking or other formal verification tools. In the months leading up to the competition, the organizers created an open source infrastructure for generating problem instances and interacting with submitted controllers. This included deciding problem specification formats and parameters of each problem domain that would be varied duri...

Soft Robotics - The Next Industrial

Soft robotics for chemists.

In areas from assembly of machines to surgery, and from deactivation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to unmanned flight, robotics is an important and rapidly growing field of science and technology. It is currently dominated by robots having hard body plans—constructions largely of metal structural elements and conventional joints—and actuated by electrical motors, or pneumatic or hydrau...

Liquid Robotics: Smart Fluid Systems: The Advent of Autonomous Liquid Robotics (Adv. Sci. 7/2017)