TRANSFORM
Machine learning met and fell in love with biology-inspired design in the creation of C-Turtle, a developmental robot created by ASU doctoral students and faculty with backgrounds in computer science, mechanical engineering and biology. Produced with just $70 of materials, the robot took about one hour of crawling to learn how to successfully navigate a desert landscape. Future applications of these types of robots could include actively monitoring conditions in challenging environments such as minefields or other planets.
The C-Turtle, a robot created by ASU faculty and doctoral students, uses an algorithmic learning process to discover how to move about in diverse types of terrain.
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“We don’t tell it what to do. If we use tricks from nature, it learns much faster.” – Heni Ben Amor, assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
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A robot teaches itself to navigate the world
