# Evolutionary robotics
## MicroSim spec
- **Recommended sim type:** evolutionary / agent-based
- **Microsimmability score:** 76/100
- **Layout:** drawing region (canvas) on top; control region (sliders/buttons) below.
### Parameters (tunable controls)
- `Population size`
- `Mutation rate`
- `Trial length`
### What animates
Simple simulated robots evolve better gaits over generations as mutation changes.
### Learning objective
Show how [[Evolution|evolution]] can design robot controllers.
## Links (Wikipedia order)
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`1X_Technologies` · `ABB` · `Adaptable_robotics` · `Aerobot` · `AgiBot` · `Agility_Robotics` · `Agricultural_robot` · `Amazon_Robotics` · `Android_(robot)` · `Animatronics` · `Anybots` · `Articulated_robot` · `Artificial_general_intelligence` · `Audio-Animatronics` · `Automated_restaurant` · `Automated_retail` · `Automaton` · `Autonomous_underwater_vehicle` · `BEAM_robotics` · `Barrett_Technology` · `Bio-inspired_robotics` · `Biorobotics` · `Boston_Dynamics` · `Brandeis_University` · `Cloud_robotics` · `Companion_robot` · `Competitions_and_prizes_in_artificial_intelligence` · `Continuous_track` · `Continuum_robot` · `Critique_of_work` · `Cyborg` · `Dario_Floreano` · `Darwinism` · `Daxbot` · `Deep_Robotics` · `Delivery_robot` · `Developmental_robotics` · `Domestic_robot` · `Doosan_Robotics` · `Educational_robotics` · `Electric_unicycle` · `Embodied_cognition` · `Energid_Technologies` · `Entertainment_robot` · `Evolutionary_algorithm` · [[Evolutionary_computation]] · `FANUC` · `FarmWise` · `Fastbrick_Robotics` · `Figure_AI` · `Fitness_(biology)` · `Foster-Miller` · `Fourier_(company)` · `Francesco_Mondada` · `Geography_of_robotics` · `Glossary_of_robotics` · `Gynoid` · `HD_Hyundai_Robotics` · `Harvest_Automation` · `Hexapod_(robotics)` · `History_of_robots` · `Hod_Lipson` · `Honeybee_Robotics` · `Humanoid_robot` · `Human–robot_interaction` · `IRobot` · `In_silico` · `Index_of_robotics_articles` · `Industrial_robot` · `Inman_Harvey` · `Intuitive_Surgical` · `Jordan_Pollack` · `Juggling_robot` · `KUKA` · `Karl_Sims` · `Khepera_mobile_robot` · `Laws_of_robotics` · `Legged_robot` · `List_of_fictional_robots_and_androids` · `List_of_robotics_companies` · `List_of_robotics_software` · `MIT_Media_Lab` · `Medical_robot` · `Microbotics` · `Military_robot` · `Mobile_robot` · `Moravec's_paradox` · `Motion_planning` · `Nanorobotics` · `Natural_selection` · `Necrobotics` · `Neura_Robotics` · [[Neural_network]] · `Open-source_robotics` · `Outline_of_robotics` · `Perceptual_robotics` · `Phil_Husbands` · `Physics_engine` · `Rainbow_Robotics` · [[Reinforcement_learning]] · `Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle` · `Robomow` · `Roborock` · `Robot` · `Robot_Hall_of_Fame` · `Robot_competition` · `Robot_ethics` · `Robot_kit` · `Robot_locomotion` · `Robot_software` · `Robotic_arm` · `Robotic_mapping` · `Robotic_paradigm` · `Robotic_tech_vest` · [[Robotics]] · `Robotics_simulator` · `Robotics_suite` · `Service_robot` · `Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping` · `Situated_robotics` · `Soft_robotics` · `Space_probe` · `Starship_Technologies` · `Stäubli` · `Swarm_robotics` · `Symbotic` · `Technological_unemployment` · `Telerobotics` · `Terrainability` · `UBtech_Robotics` · `Ubiquitous_robot` · `Unitree_Robotics` · `Universal_Robotics` · `Universal_Robots` · `University_of_Sussex` · `Unmanned_aerial_vehicle` · `Unmanned_ground_vehicle` · `Vision-guided_robot_systems` · `Visual_odometry` · `Waymo` · `Welltec` · `White_Box_Robotics` · `Wolf_Robotics` · `Workplace_robotics_safety` · `Yaskawa_Electric_Corporation` · `Zoox` · `École_Polytechnique_Fédérale_de_Lausanne`
## From the Real GENERATIVE library (beauty pass)
*Evolutionary robotics — image hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons (via the Real G.E.N.E.R.A.T.I.V.E. course library, Robotics room). [Details & license](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shadow_Hand_Bulb_large.jpg).*
> Evolutionary robotics is an embodied approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which robots are automatically designed using Darwinian principles of natural selection.[1] The design of a robot, or a subsystem of a robot such as a neural controller, is optimized against a behavioral goal (e.g. run as fast as possible). Usually, designs are evaluated in simulations as fabricating thousands or millions of designs and testing them in the real world is prohibitively expensive in terms of ti ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_robotics))
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> p5.js MicroSim stub · part of Systems Thinking · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_robotics)
> Relation: subfield of systems thinking.
## Concept summary
Evolutionary robotics is an embodied approach to [[Artificial_intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] (AI) in which robots are automatically designed using Darwinian principles of natural selection. The design of a robot, or a subsystem of a robot such as a neural controller, is optimized against a behavioral goal (e.g.
## Build checklist
- [ ] Claim it: set `status: in-progress` + `lease` + `leased_at`
- [ ] Write the child page explaining the concept (tie it back to systems thinking)
- [ ] Finalize parameter ranges and defaults
- [ ] Implement the p5.js sketch (drawing + control regions)
- [ ] Add caption + the learning objective on the page
- [ ] Set `status: done`
## p5.js sketch
```javascript
// MicroSim: Evolutionary robotics
let controls = {};
function setup() {
// createCanvas(...); create sliders for the parameters above.
}
function draw() {
// background(...); read controls; render evolutionary / agent-based; respond live.
}
```
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## Wikipedia : Wikitube
**Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_robotics) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Evolutionary_robotics)
## Previous hub tags
Tree parents: [[Complex_system]] · [[Cybernetics]] · [[Emergence]] · [[Feedback]] · [[Self-organization]] · [[Systems_science]] · [[Systems_theory]].
Legacy hubs: none.
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