Evolutionary robotics applies the selection, variation, and heredity principles of natural
evolution to the design of robots with embodied intelligence. It can be considered as a …

This article provides an overview of evolutionary robotics techniques applied to online
distributed evolution for robot collectives, namely, embodied evolution. It provides a …

Many believe that an essential component for the discovery of the tremendous diversity in
natural organisms was the evolution of evolvability, whereby evolution speeds up its ability …

Collective sensing is an emergent phenomenon which enables individuals to estimate a
hidden property of the environment through the observation of social interactions. Previous …

The evolution of complexity is one of the prime features of life on Earth. Although well
accepted as the product of adaptation, the dynamics underlying the evolutionary build-up of …

Evolutionary swarm robotics (first evoked by Braitenberg [17]) uses evolutionary
computational techniques to synthesise behaviours for a group of autonomous robots. The …

A vast body of literature studies problems such as cooperation and coordination in groups,
but the reasons why groups exist in the first place and hold together are still not clear: in …

Robots have transformed many industries, most notably manufacturing, and have the power
to deliver tremendous benefits to society, for example in search and rescue, disaster …

Evolutionary Robotics systems draw inspiration from natural evolution to solve the problem
of robot design. A key moment in the evolutionary process is reproduction, when the …

Alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs), phenomena in which individuals within one sex
adopt different tactics for accessing mates or raising offspring, are commonly observed in all …