The Evolutionary Robotics Homepage

This page include links to research labs and researchers involved in Evolutionary Robotics. It also include links to relevant journals and resources and a selected bibliography.

Evolutionary Robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. It is inspired upon the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest. It is a new approach that looks at robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment without human intervention. Heavily drawing from natural sciences like biology and ethology, evolutionary robotics makes use of tools like neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and bio-morphic engineering.
(for more information see Nolfi S. and Floreano D. [2000]. Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books).

LARAL, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy Via san martino della Battaglia 44, Rome, Italy
Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at Sussex (EASy), UK. University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, UK
Agents, Interaction and Complexity group (AIC), University of Southampton, UK. University of Southampton, UK
Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Research Group, University of Plymouth, UK Portland Square A316, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK
Adaptive System Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK College Lane Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Route J-D.Colladon, Lausanne, Switzerland
Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Avenue J-R. Perronet, Lausanne, Switzerland
AILab, University of Zurich, Switzerland Andreasstrasse 15, Zurich, Switzerland
VUB AI Lab, Brussels, Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium
IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Brussels, Belgium Av. F. Roosevelt 194, Brussels, Belgium
Skovde Cognition and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Sweden Skovde, Sweden

Asada Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan Osaka University, Japan

Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University, USA 919 E 10th St‎, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Cornell Creative Machines Lab, Cornell University, USA Cornell University, USA
DEMO Lab, Brandeis, U.S.A. Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University Waltham, USA
Robotics Research Group, University of Southern California, USA. University of southern California, USA
Mobile Robot Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 85 5th St, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
The Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, San Diego, USA 800 Silverado Street, Suite 302, La Jolla, USA
Morphology, Evolution and Cognition Lab, University of Vermont, USA University of Vermont, Votey Hall Burlington, USA
Applied AI Systems Inc., Canada/Japan 112 John Cavanaugh Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Computer Science Department, Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada

Online Resources

Evolutionary Robotics on Wikipedia
An introductionary page on Evolutionary Robotics by Andrew Nelson
Talking Robots Podcast by Dario Floreano
Papers on Line by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Evolution of Morphology and Behavior for Physically Modelled Creatues, by Tim Taylor
Biomorphic Robotics by Iguana Robotics Inc.

Software

Evorobot by Stefano Nolfi
Farsa by LARAL

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