1. Evolutionary Robotics and Open-Ended Design Automation
Hod Lipson, Cornell University

2. How do people design things?
How does nature design things?
“Can a computer ultimately augment or replace human invention?”

11. References
Lipson, H. "Evolutionary Robotics and Open-Ended Design Automation." Biomimetics: Biologically Inspired Technologies. Ed. Yoseph Bar-Cohen. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006.
Lipson H. (2004) "How to Draw a Straight Line Using a GP: Benchmarking Evolutionary Design Against 19th Century Kinematic Synthesis", Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Late Breaking Paper, GECCO 2004
Lipson H., Pollack J. B., 2000, “Automatic design and Manufacture of Robotic Lifeforms”, Nature 406, pp
Evolution of Machines: The Golem Project
Generative Representations for Design Automation