I've been experimenting with attention mechanisms to design locomotion controllers that adapt to different shapes, this is the same controller running on two different bodies github.com/juniorrojas/mo… paper coming soon 👀

I told you we’d be back

Former lab member Sam Kriegman just received an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. Congratulations Sam!! nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Northwestern Engineering’s Sam Kriegman has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. Congrats, Sam! spr.ly/60174XDyW

So we opened our Chemifarm today! chemify.io

The 2025 Artificial Life Conference is happening in Kyoto later this year! The theme is "Ciphers of Life", showcasing an incredible roster of keynote speakers in a hybrid, remote + in-person setup. Join us: 2025.alife.org #alife #artificiallife #alife2025

We made it to Times Square! The ITU #AIforGood Global Summit, taking place 8 - 11 July at Geneva's largest #exhibition center, lit up Time Square in the Big Apple this week. Our colleagues in New York joined thousands of people to watch our milestone moment on the big screen, a

Looking forward to speaking at the first Biohybrid Robotics Symposium (BRS) tomorrow! biohybrid-robotics.com

Just arrived at the UN's #AIForGood Symposium in Geneva. Was in time to catch @DanielaRus' talk on AI Governance; I'll be speaking about #xenobots tomorrow. (Joint work w/ Douglas Blackiston, Sam Kriegman, Michael Levin).

#AIForGood attendees: thanks for the great questions about xenobots! Some of you asked about the demo. If you missed it, it's here: tinyurl.com/AI4Good25.

Earlier at the #AIforGood Global Summit! AI takes to the skies, the soil, and beyond at the Frontier Stage today. Here is a summary what happened: 👉 Building the First Living Robots This visionary talk introduced “living robots,” built from biological cells instead of

Presented at GECCO 2025 in Malaga. ZapGPT - how natural language can be a control interface for guiding emergent behavior in simulated agents (cells). This work’s done in Prof. Josh Bongard’s lab and in collaboration with Prof. Michael Levin’s lab. Video demonstration below.

At the world's first Workshop on Computationally Designed Organisms (cdo2025.github.io), Michael Levin shows that biobots "live", even "after" the "death" of the human donor. Paul Bruce Dickinson, you were missed!

Just heard that Stephen Colbert is retiring. See you on the beach, Colbert! youtu.be/z0WxBBsccyU?t=…

Can rotors EAT other robots? We demonstrate a new "Robot Metabolism" process where robots grow by consuming parts from other robots: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… x.com/i/status/19459…

Prof. Boden was the toughest teacher I ever had. She also spent an inordinate amount of time talking through my essays and those of my fellow Masters student colleagues, 1-on-1. She cared. She demanded. She led by example. She will be sorely missed.

The 2025 ALife Conference is two months away! Join us in magnificent Kyoto! Thank you to our host CrossLabs, supporters Cross Compass & ISAL; sponsors Sakana AI Google, The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social; Wolfram; media partners Machine Learning Street Talk, In Silence AI

Maggie Boden's passing is a sad loss to many of us personally, and to cognitive science and philosophy as a whole. This obituary, by Michael Rosenwald, was published the other day in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2025/08/14/sci…

Today’s Humanoid Robots Look Remarkable—but There’s a Design Flaw Holding Them BackBeyond brains, robots desperately need smarter bodies singularityhub.com/2025/08/15/tod…