John Long, “Darwin’s Devices: Evolving Robots to Study Animal Evolution” at World Maker Faire 2012

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World Maker Fair 2012: John Long, “Darwin’s Devices: Evolving Robots to Study Animal Evolution”
To understand organic evolution, we evolve biorobots. Our biorobots are fully autonomous mimics of ancient fish-like vertebrates. We subject them to the same selection pressures that may have occurred 500 million years ago.