Coevolutionary Robotics Jordan Pollack, Hod Lipson, Pablo Funes, Sevan Ficici, Greg Hornby Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization Department of Computer Science Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts 02454 USA {pollack, lipson, funes, sevan, hornby}@ Abstract We address the fundamental issue of fully automated design (FAD) and construction of inexpensive robots and their controllers. Rather than seek an intelligent general purpose robot — the humanoid robot, ubiquitous in today’s research as the long term goal — we are developing the information technology that can design and fabricate special-purpose mechanisms and controllers to achieve specific short-term objectives. These robots will be constructed from reusable sensors,.
