I'm super thrilled to see other researchers implement variants of our NCA that work on physical devices!! That's like a dream coming more and more true! Shout out to Katt Walker Rasmus Berg Palm Kasper Støy and Sebastian Risi paper: arxiv.org/abs/2203.07548 (1/2)

The 3rd of our 3 upcoming GECCO 2025 pubs: Caitlin shows that Neural Cellular Automata evolved to homeostat and be empowered* are better at homeostasis than NCAs evolved only to homeostat. *cells can influence other cells distant in space and time arxiv.org/abs/2205.06771

Wanted to apply to this year's virtual creatures competition but thought you'd missed the deadline? Good news! The deadline is now extended until the 14th June! all the details you need in this link: sites.google.com/view/vcc2022/h… Happy creating!

Great teamwork by Kazuya Horibe (@kazh289.bsky.social 🦋), Katt Walker, Rasmus Berg Palm, and Shyam Sudhakaran. This journal paper, now published in GPEMjournal link.springer.com/article/10.100…., extends our previous evolution-only work on soft robot damage recovery: x.com/risi1979/statu…

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Of course I'm a little biased, but Sebastian is a great supervisor. Highly recommend!

Never have I ever seen a more accurate post to describe my husband.

Less than one week until the virtual creatures workshop makes it debut at ALIFE! Friday, July 22, 14:00-15:30 CET sites.google.com/view/vcc2022/h… See you there :)

This friday (July 22, 14:00-15:30 CET) @sina_lana Sam Kriegman Caitlin and I will be hosting the first virtual creatures workshop at ALIFE! Come check out this year's best in cute simulated squidgy things sites.google.com/view/vcc2022/h…

Love this!!

.Hiro Iizuka talking about the #ALIFE2023 venue, Sapporo ALIFE Conference 2025

This year's winner of the Virtual Creatures Contest ALIFE Conference 2025 is... 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧 🫧 ...Diffaqua! 🐟🐡🦈🐠🐋 diffaqua.csail.mit.edu 🪸 🪸 🪸 Congratulations to Pingchuan Ma and colleagues!

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