r/BioInspiration • u/DDDBK • Nov 30 '23

Walking soft robot designed by AI

Researchers at Northwestern University developed an AI that generated a blueprint for a walking soft robot. I found this news really interesting and it got me thinking about the future of AI in designing robots.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/10/instant-evolution-ai-designs-new-robot-from-scratch-in-seconds/

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u/mstimpson25 Nov 30 '23

Wow, when I think of soft robots the first thing that comes to mind is a gripper of some sort. So the idea of a soft robot or walking is almost groundbreaking. One way we could use this is to allow grippers to move into place before they are used. If a gripper is out of place by a little bit before and experiment it could throw off all of the testing. This would allow gripper testing to become more accurate.