Natural lifeforms specialize to their environmental niches across many levels, from low-level
features such as DNA and proteins, through to higher-level artefacts including eyes, limbs …

We introduce the framework of reality-assisted evolution to summarize a growing trend
towards combining model-based and model-free approaches to improve the design of …

This is the second edition of our 2003 book. It is primarily a book for lecturers and graduate
and undergraduate students. To this group the book offers a thorough introduction to …

The vision behind this paper looks ahead to evolutionary robot systems where morphologies
and controllers are evolved together and 'newborn'robots undergo a learning process to …

Evolutionary robotics using real hardware has been almost exclusively restricted to evolving
robot controllers, but the technology for evolvable morphologies is advancing quickly. We …

Simultaneously evolving morphologies (bodies) and controllers (brains) of robots can cause
a mismatch between the inherited body and brain in the offspring. To mitigate this problem …

We present a study on morphological traits of evolved modular robots. We note that the
evolutionary search space–the set of obtainable morphologies–depends on the given …

The challenge of robotic reproduction–making of new robots by recombining two existing
ones–has been recently cracked and physically evolving robot systems have come within …

We outline a perspective on the future of evolutionary robotics and discuss a long-term
vision regarding robots that evolve in the real world. We argue that such systems offer …

According to Hebbian theory, synaptic plasticity is the ability of neurons to strengthen or
weaken the synapses among them in response to stimuli. It plays a fundamental role in the …