Three generations of automatically designed robots

Artificial Life

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 215-223

  Pollack, Jordan B ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a   Hornby, Gregory ^a   Funes, Pablo ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Automatic manufacturing; Coevolution; Computer aided design; Physical simulation; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ECONOMICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

EID: 0035376864     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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