{"id":173923,"date":"2023-10-10T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-was-told-to-design-a-robot-that-could-walk-within-seconds-it-generated-a-small-squishy-and-misshapen-thing-that-spasms"},"modified":"2023-10-10T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:32:09","slug":"ai-was-told-to-design-a-robot-that-could-walk-within-seconds-it-generated-a-small-squishy-and-misshapen-thing-that-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ai-was-told-to-design-a-robot-that-could-walk-within-seconds-it-generated-a-small-squishy-and-misshapen-thing-that-spasms","title":{"rendered":"AI was told to design a robot that could walk. Within seconds, it generated a \u2018small, squishy, and misshapen\u2019 thing that spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-was-told-to-design-a-robot-that-could-walk-within-seconds-it-generated-a-small-squishy-and-misshapen-thing-that-spasms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a group of researchers asked an AI to design a robot that could walk, it created a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2023\/10\/instant-evolution-ai-designs-new-robot-from-scratch-in-seconds\/\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">\u201csmall, squishy and misshapen\u201d<\/a> thing that walks by spasming when filled with air.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers \u2014 affiliated with Northwestern University, MIT, and the University of Vermont \u2014 published their findings in an <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2305180120\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\" nofollow\">article<\/a> for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on October 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told the AI that we wanted a robot that could walk across land. Then we simply pressed a button and presto!\u201d Sam Kriegman, an assistant professor at Northwestern University and the lead researcher behind the study, wrote in a separate <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2023\/10\/instant-evolution-ai-designs-new-robot-from-scratch-in-seconds\/\" data-analytics-product-module=\"body_link\" rel=\"\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a group of researchers asked an AI to design a robot that could walk, it created a \u201csmall, squishy and misshapen\u201d thing that walks by spasming when filled with air. The researchers \u2014 affiliated with Northwestern University, MIT, and the University of Vermont \u2014 published their findings in an article for the Proceedings of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}