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Title: Instant Evolution: Novel Robots from Scratch in Seconds

Speaker: Sam Kriegman, Computer Science, Northwestern University

Abstract: AI systems have taken massive strides designing prose, artwork, game play, software, and proteins, but have yet to master the design of complex physical machines. In this talk I will introduce an AI method that can design self-moving machines — robots — from scratch by tracing failures in their behavior back to errors or inefficiencies in particular parts of their physical structure. Because this method improves the robot in this way, it can optimize the interdependent parts of the robot much more rapidly than the current approach, in which the designer tries different robot designs in a trial and error fashion. This opens the way toward bespoke AI-driven design of robots for a wide range of tasks, rapidly and on demand.

Zoom: This event will be held in person, and also online via Zoom at the following link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/92037494559

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