“The brain is embodied, and the body is embedded in the environment”
- Gerald M.Edelman
“The brain is embodied, and the body is embedded in the environment”
- Gerald M.Edelman
Deus Ex Machina Sapiens: Minding the Machine: https://books.google.de/books?id=jneIT5ElvIsC #Robot #ALife #Book
Neurorobotics—A Thriving Community and a Promising Pathway Toward Intelligent Cognitive Robots: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2018.00042/full
Neurorobots are robots whose control has been modeled after some aspect of the brain. Since the brain is so closely coupled to the body and situated in the environment, Neurorobots can be a powerful tool for studying neural function in a holistic fashion. It may also be a means to develop autonomous systems that have some level of biological intelligence. The present article provides my perspective on this field, points out some of the landmark events, and discusses its future potential.
"When I was at the Neurosciences Institute, Edelman would sometimes ask our group “If I held a gun to your head and asked you what is the most important feature of the brain, what would be your answer?” Eugene Izhikevich, who was my co-worker at the time answered the neuron. My answer was always anatomy."
Rat brains linked to create "biological computer" (2013)
BEAM robotics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics #Robot #ALife
Ergo-Robots: Artificial Curiosity and Language - by Pierre-Yves Oudeyer: https://flowers.inria.fr/robots/ergo-robots/ #Robot #ALife
Evolution Strategies For Technical Innovation - talk by Ingo Rechenberg. #ALife #Generative
Morphogenesis in robot swarms: http://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/25/eaau9178
Morphogenetic Engineering - talk by René Doursat
Interactively Evolved Art (Picbreeder, AnimationBreeder, 3DObjectBreeder) - by Dr. Jacob Schrum: https://people.southwestern.edu/~schrum2/SCOPE/EvolvedArt/cppnart.php
Infinite Museum
Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life - by Sarah-Kember: https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Cyberfeminism-and-Artificial-Life-Sarah-Kember.pdf #ALife
WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web:
https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ARTL_a_00211 #ALife
"Art and Artificial Life – a Primer" - by Simon Penny: #ALife #ML #Art
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5888/6c10d2740952edeb2ad70a585fcf91da7185.pdf
Slime Molds Remember - but Do They Learn?: https://www.quantamagazine.org/slime-molds-remember-but-do-they-learn-20180709/ "Evidence mounts that organisms without nervous systems can learn & solve problems" #Nature #ALife #FFHCI
An Amoeba-Based 'Computer' Found Solutions To Traveling Salesman Problem: https://phys.org/news/2018-12-amoeba-approximate-solutions-np-hard-problem.html https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180396 #ALife #ML #Nature
Josh Bongard and Hod Lipson on "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman" #ALife
Morphogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis #ALife