for the galapagos fan club - Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials (muscle, bone, etc.)

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Comment by Vicente Soler on April 21, 2013 at 10:03am

Cool. Maybe they could've made them look more agile and less bulky if they divided the fitness value by energy expenditure.

Comment by Pieter Segeren on April 18, 2013 at 2:22pm

Really awesome video!
Calls for a "love it!" button" :)

Comment by Marios Tsiliakos on April 17, 2013 at 3:41am

And of course we cannot forget the first of its kind by Karl Sims (1994 !!!!!!)

paper here

video here

Comment by Tuan N. Tran on April 16, 2013 at 9:27pm

Nick, as David said, this was not made using GH.  I posted it because it's a very interesting application of evolutionary principles. 

Phillip, my first reaction was similar to yours: How fun it would be to produce these using a multi-material 3d printer?

Daniel, thanks for the link.  I do have an itch to recreate or simulate something like this in GH.

Comment by Daniel Piker on April 16, 2013 at 1:11pm

"Dynamic Simulation of Soft Heterogeneous Objects"

Comment by taz on April 16, 2013 at 11:19am

"I will love him and hug him and name him George"

Comment by David Rutten on April 16, 2013 at 11:05am

I don't think GH and Galapagos were involved at all. It's just about digital evolution.

Comment by Nick Tyrer on April 16, 2013 at 6:05am

So on the video it says it was made with voxcad, but the tags say galapagos, how much of this was made using gh? was the sucess rate fed into gh, for galapagos to generate next generation?

Comment by Nick Tyrer on April 16, 2013 at 6:03am

Totally agree with Phillip, you really start to project personalities onto each of the creatures.   Really cool work. 

Comment by phillip on April 16, 2013 at 2:08am

Great work!

Paint two dots at the top on it. Then print them out of something soft and you will make millions.