A drone that spins 25 times a second attempts can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators admit that it can still be easily heard

Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears | New Scientist

A drone that spins 25 times a second attempts can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators admit that it can still be easily heard

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These are legged metamachines, legged machines made of legged machines… Website: modularlegs.github.io Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Always a blast introducing new folks to the history + future of #biohybrid #robotics - today at the University of Bristol SoftLab Seminar! Great to get feedback on what we've done so far + an exciting reminder of how much we have left to keep us busy in the coming decades 😊

The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊

The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism

How does the genome encode the form of the organism? What is the nature of this genomic code? Inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience, we propose that the genome encodes a generat...

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Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻

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1/ Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports! 🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Today's evolutionary #robotics lecture: bipedal locomotion. In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks. youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw

New paper w/ Luke Strgar sites.google.com/view/co-desi... ...in a nutshell: ⛰️ differentiable physics 🏋️ morphological pretraining 🧠 a universal controller 🧬 zero shot evolution 💡 adaptive phototaxis ☠️ diversity collapse 🔧 generational finetuning 🦘 few shot evolution

Muhan Li will present his freeform endoskeletal robots at ICLR in April: endoskeletal.github.io Evolve yours at home today!