York Robotics Laboratory
News
2021
The Conversation published an article from Emma Hart with title "We’re teaching robots to evolve autonomously – so they can adapt to life alone on distant planets" on the 1st of February 2021.
Our paper "Bootstrapping Artificial Evolution to Design Robots for Autonomous Fabrication" has been highlighted on the front page of the MDPI frontpage (
398kb download).
2020
MDPI robotics - Special issue on Evolutionary Robotics
Our paper "Bootstrapping Artificial Evolution to Design Robots for Autonomous Fabrication" has been published in the journal MDPI robotics on the 2nd of December 2020.
The 2020 International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES)
Canberra, Australia, 2nd of December, 2020
Our papers "Evolution of diverse, manufacturable robot body plans" and "Hardware design for autonomous robot evolution" have been accepted for The 2020 International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES), which will take place from the 2nd of December to the 3rd of December.
Robots creating robots: towards autonomous evolution of robot system
Edinburgh, UK, 17th of September, 2020
The ARE project in the Edinburgh Napier University's news.
Advisory Board Meeting
York, UK, 10th of September, 2020
On the 10th of September, the second meeting with the Advisory Board took place online.
Keynote at SEAMS 2020
Seoul, South Korea, 1st of July, 2020
Gusz Eiben gave a keynote talk with title Evolving Robot Software and Hardware for SEAMS 2020.
UK Robotics Week 2020
UK, 26th of June, 2020
The ARE project included in the Highlights of UK Research 2020.
The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life
Montreal, Canada, 31st of May, 2020
Our paper Sample and time efficient policy learning with CMA-ES and Bayesian Optimisation has been accepted for The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (ALife 2020), which will take place from the 13th of July to the 18th of July at the University of Vermont.
2019
Advisory Board Meeting
Bristol, UK, 6th of September, 2019
On the 6th of September, the first meeting with the Advisory Board took place at the University of West England.
Towards the Autonomous Evolution of Robotic Ecosystems
Wellington, NZ, 13th of June, 2019
Emma Hart delivered a keynote on ARE during IEEE CEC 2019.
York Festival of Ideas
York, UK, 9th of June, 2019
On the 9th of June the ARE team contributed to the York Festival of Ideas in the AI Exhibition: Experience the future session.
The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life
Newcastle, UK, 30 of April, 2019
Our paper The ARE Robot Fabricator: How to (Re)produce Robots that Can Evolve in the Real World has been accepted for The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life (ALife 2019), which will take place from the 29th of July to the 2nd of August at the University of Newcastle.
Darwins Maschinen
Germany, April, 2019
The magazine has published an article about the ARE project.