MEDAL Blogging

NewScientistTech posted a nice article on Robotarium X, the first robot zoo. Check out the full article here. Thanks to the Intelligent Machines Blog for the pointer.
A video and several photos of Robotarium X can be found here. Photo courtesy of Leonel Moura.

Digg posted a link to the Genetic Arm 2.0 project, which uses the genetic algorithm to train a neural network that controls a mechanical arm. A nice video of the arm throwing a ball as far as possible is included. You can download the software to perform your own simulations.
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Digg posted a link to an online simulation of a genetic algorithm evolving small rockets with 5 engines in order to minimize fuel consumption and maximize accuracy given a target. Check the demo out here and the post here. It’s a pity not many details about the simulation are given in the post or the [...]

The first issue of the second volume of SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), is now available at http://www.sigevolution.org/. The PDF can be downloaded here.

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence has recently started a blog, check it out here. Thanks to IlliGAL Blogging for their post about this.

Yesterday, Kumara Sastry posted a paper on using multiobjective GAs in quantum chemistry online:
Sastry, K., Johnson, D. D., Thompson, A. L., Goldberg, D. E., Martinez, T. J., Leiding, J., Owens, J. (2007). Optimization of semiempirical quantum chemisty methods via multiobjective genetic algorithms: Accurate photochemistry for larger molecules and longer time scales. Materials and Manufacturing [...]