Most policy search (PS) algorithms require thousands of training episodes to find an
effective policy, which is often infeasible with a physical robot. This survey article focuses on …

In this review we concentrate on a grounded approach to the modeling of cognition through
the methodologies of cognitive agents and developmental robotics. This work will focus on …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

An ambitious challenge in artificial life is to craft an evolutionary process that discovers a
wide diversity of well-adapted virtual creatures within a single run. Unlike in nature, evolving …

Evolution sculpts both the body plans and nervous systems of agents together over time. By
contrast, in artificial intelligence and robotics, a robot's body plan is usually designed by …

Ever since Cicero's De Natura Deorum ii. 34., humans have been intrigued by the origin and
mechanisms underlying complexity in nature. Darwin suggested that adaptation and …

Conclusions Overall, we envision RoboGen as not only an effective platform for evolving the
morphologies and controllers of manufacturable robots, but also a valuable educational tool …

This paper presents the prototype of a new computer simulator for the humanoid robot iCub.
The iCub is a new open-source humanoid robot developed as a result of the" RobotCub" …

The field of evolved virtual creatures has been suspiciously stagnant in terms of
complexification of evolved agents since its inception over two decades ago. Many …

Robot design is often a slow and difficult process requiring the iterative construction and
testing of prototypes, with the goal of sequentially optimizing the design. For most robots, this …