{"id":3214,"date":"2021-11-08T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alife.org\/?post_type=encyclopedia&p=3214"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:22:40","slug":"evolutionary-robotics","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/alife.org\/encyclopedia\/introduction\/evolutionary-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Evolutionary robotics is a sub-field of artificial life<\/a> in which evolutionary algorithms are used to evolve robot morphology (i.e. shape) and\/or behavior <\/span>. Sometimes these robots exist only in simulation, while other times evolved morphologies and behaviors are translated out of the computer and into physical robots. Getting robots evolved in a computer to work in the real world is notoriously challenging due to what is known as the “reality gap” (i.e. the many unexpected differences between a simulated environment and reality), but there has increasingly been progress towards overcoming this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a video introduction to evolutionary robotics, see the following talk by Sam Kriegman at the 2021 ISAL Summer school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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