Unshackling Evolution: Evolving Soft Robots with Multiple Materials

[@talkinganimals]

2:24 Proof that drummers are a result of very primitive evolution

[@hoshangchakravarty]

Bruh 😂

[@finbob08]

2:30 looks like old man trying to catch the bus

[@seaweedbrainweeb2643]

I have no idea what this all is but i'm watching this in 2x and its the best thing i've watched this week

[@MrTigt]

Watching this at 2x speed is of the funniest things I've done all month

[@SatelliteYL]

2:26 is my favorite

[@xiphosura413]

The 'Bongo Player', he's my favourite too :D

[@StephJ0seph]

It looks like a dog with floppy ears

[@commonwade]

Nice results! :) Have you tried taking the total expended energy into account in other experiments? Like rewarding the distance/energy ratio for example?

[@pikminfan6778]

2:35 I think that creature looks like one of those things that old people use to keep their balance.

[@aurelia65536]

*sees first creature* Izzat pants? Izzat a pair of God dang starched pants walking around like Jagger?

[@axeburningfire2507]

how are there still people who don't believe in evolution? that is as stupid as not believing in pinecones...

[@emicincin1477]

Um... I'll have you know pinecones are a figment of your twisted imagination.

[@nathanaelpierre9439]

Believing in evolution is fine, but you cannot say evolution is why we exist lol.

[@georgequilitz8530]

Nathanael Pierre ?

[@maxim9470]

@@nathanaelpierre9439 adding lol to the end of a sentence does NOT make you seem like the right person.

[@nathanaelpierre9439]

@@maxim9470 Are you sure about that? lol

[@antiHUMANDesigns]

It would be interesting to see what happens if you were to take these creatures that have evolved under this seleciton pressure, and change the selection pressure to something else. It means they have to start with what they already were, and now evolve some different solution based on that. This is what causes interesting complexity in reality, I think.

[@julianemery718]

Don't get me wrong, these look really cool, and also quite derpy. But somehow a bit... unsettling and unnerving.

[@etherealrift6888]

They don't have faces, or arms, they sorta have legs,

[@julianemery718]

The Neon Green Bean Hmm, I think it's more to do with the fact it's non-organic... *things* trying to move in an organic fashion. I mean, I KNOW it's all a test to see how computers can deal with complex (for a computer, at least) movements, and without any explicit direction either, just a few parameters to get as close to. Ugh, it's hard to explain in one go... ask me something else. ^_^

[@etherealrift6888]

Julian Emery oh

[@ensjo]

It's the creative force behind our own bodies. Amazing evolution! ^_^

[@lauralahaye7699]

2:39: weird place for "soft support"!

[@pokemon05100]

Imagine if we could make a multiplayer game where everyone was an individual and they as a population would evolve. The process would be sped up to the point it is here, so that you could die in a new server then come back a long time later and find that the animal you control is now much more complex.

[@johngriffith7872]

Are the changes (mutations) randomly generated from generation to generation? What is the rate of mutation and did you impose any parameters on the rate?

[@Adraria8]

Make them fight each other!

[@Penguinz-fr1mu]

lmao

[@bkaplowitzbk]

It would be interesting to do a followup study examining locomotion evolution with respect to energy efficient movement (as is found in real life), where you would do something like the highest ratio of distance covered in a certain amount of time/ number of blocks devoted to expanding or contracting. I wonder if a walking motion would predominate in that case, as happens in real life...

[@davebates9986]

I think more effort should be put into these types of experiments. I think observing the way cumulative selection puts things together will help us solve "the hard problem"; self awareness.

[@mhss1992]

It definitely won't. The Hard Problem deals with first-person experience, which is something that can literally only be observed inside one's own mind. Unless you can find a way to measure actual experience, and not merely behavior, on these creatures, the problem remains unsolvable.

[@mattcrunk8558]

I always like to think... If you took the winners of equally evolved creatures, and put them together into a population to compete, how would that push the best...

[@AndreasIndustriePro]

the one at 2:19 is the bongo-player

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[@AndreasIndustriePro]

lol you guys i was trolling no one is that stupid i assumed ...

[@julianemery718]

AndreasIndustriePro You'd be surprised.

[@aidandixon6028]

Oh shit its the prototype Borg!

[@UnfinishedRiot]

I'm assuming it is expensive to do this because I would love to watch evolutionary simulations more often.

[@robinfiler8707]

+UnfinishedRiot couldn't see why it would be

[@garret1930]

+UnfinishedRiot I think mostly there aren't enough people making them.

[@Defenestrationism]

I know you posted this a long time ago, but look on carykh's channel, its amazing

[@fabianbosiger61]

problem is you don't get paid

[@Hamarguy]

Pretty cool. I was trying to do the exact same thing once, but didn't get very far with it.

[@DarioCazzani]

2:20 it's Gangnam style

[@alonsorobots]

It's interesting that it doesn't seem to be using a lot of the rigid cubes. Also they're not perfectly rigid right? otherwise a cluster of them would be perfectly stiff?

[@LineOfThy]

nothing is perfectly rigid

[@brendanstein88]

I find it very interesting to evolve creatures and to study evolution

[@jwalterhite]

3:01 when I go to school

[@grobertoac2430]

That's brilliant! I recommand you to doing the same thing but adding an energye consumed by muscles when contracting so you can see which use less energy, so will be the most performant even on a long distance, that could be great. Otherwise, excellent video, keep going and thanks !

[@lukerinderknecht2982]

1:46 is my favourite 🙂

[@Lexyvil]

This is amazing.

[@LordHeg]

if you really think about it aliens could look just like this because this video proves its possible to walk like this

[@clydecavanaugh3131]

what is the soundtrack song ?

[@Liberator1917]

I love these wiggly boys

[@elesystemic6742]

Also the tiny galloping one

[@fuoser]

relink the pdf please

[@Rakiayn]

very nice!

[@StevePorras]

We are God's computer simulation. This was excellent

[@dinosaur4506]

can't wait till someone does this but with earth in its early stages and just let it run to see how life came about

[@ivansalazar1583]

what program is that?

[@elesystemic6742]

And I love a flatworm that it's body is really thin

[@criskity]

Creationism loses yet again.

[@Fotosnegociosnet]

Not really. This video cleary show that evolution is a tecnology. Someone/something set te parameters and evolution happened within those limits. Not sure if these blobs would eventually set to mate and reproduce unless it was a parameter of the experiment. Call it Nature, call it God, Called Creative Design... we are just an experiment

[@MrUdarshen]

but the "designer ", which is us in this case, also evolved to be what we are today... So no, there isn't a real designer.

[@Crim1155]

Actually the video was just a simulation, and the guy played almost no part in their evolution, he just created the simulation, they adapted on their own, probably having some randomizer to make them turn out differently

[@enderblawk5068]

+Treeman and +Thunder1155 It only did that because it was told to. It was created.

[@Crim1155]

Yeah let's just say it told them to figure out how to walk to one side of the screen to the other

[@thegoldenbucketstudios9896]

2:24

[@maxwellgrossman]

where can i download this?

[@thegoldenbucketstudios9896]

A bit late i know, but you cant, this is made by them, sorry!

[@dewinmoonl]

cool stuff subscribed yo1!

[@rezganger]

...but whats triggering all these changes that ends in evolvement???

[@rezganger]

Thats not good enough.

[@rezganger]

Then u shouldnt present it the way u do!! U present it like its something scientific...but its NOT! Very deceiving...

[@rezganger]

***** U going to play that card??? Really???

[@SiPhur]

The changes are entirely random. The creature is measured after each change and given a "fitness score". The fitness score is dependent on different factors (such as distance traveled or height jumped). These factors are decided by the person running the simulation. The creatures who score the highest are kept and the process is done again. Eventually you end up with a creature who has "evolved" into one the things shown above in the video.

[@SiPhur]

Possibly, he may just be bad at English though. Probably just a case of miscommunication.

[@BrunoSaccoPy]

Gravity?

[@SquareKiteGaming]

Can't imagine how much GPU power this must have taken

[@vinesthemonkey]

SquareKite nothing here would benefit from GPU unless the program was parallel enough to overcome the I/O bottleneck of actually sending and receiving data from gpu

[@mythink101]

How did the computers come about? Evolution or a mind? How did the programme and software come about? Evolution or a mind? Reasonable scientific enquiry.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

My Thoughts 101 nice bait boyo

[@elesystemic6742]

I love a tiny one

[@DestroyedArkana]

Reminds me of the game Cubivore

[@WintLu]

feel pity for those soft guys...

[@roidroid]

yes

[@johnkishoresawney2665]

2:27 where the creature almost looks humanoid q:

[@craycap6325]

you should make new videos

[@Ceafto2007]

Now give them funny names

[@eden7010]

These are all way too cube-y. Give them a bigger bounding box.

[@droopsmoop]

Given more time they would probably end up with more exotic looking shapes.

[@nitramgt9308]

you didnt search for this now did you,..

[@user-yx6br2vs9m]

one dislike, lol

[@origamigek]

Jeezless christ Nick change that picture

[@nindroid3160]

coppied carykh

[@joenoodle6914]

this is kinda gross looking