On: Bizarre Soft Robots Evolve to Run

[rasur]

Reminds me of Karl Sims' Evolved Virtual Creatures work, except moved to physical reality.

[mkl → rasur]

And he did it in 1994: http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html

There was also earlier work, e.g. Witkin and Kass, Spacetime Constraints, 1988, but I don't think I've ever seen a video.

[3dptz → mkl]

I remember being dumbstruck after watching that video for the first time and realizing the power of programming. Karl Sims website still looks a bit like it did back then http://www.karlsims.com