Text2Robot: Evolutionary Robot Design from Text Descriptions

For over half a century, robot design has been a costly and labor-intensive process, requiring extensive human efforts from initial sketches to detailed modeling, prototyping, controller design, manufacturing, and testing. This traditional approach has significant limitations, such as prohibitive costs, lengthy development cycles, and constraints on innovation bounded by human imagination and manual capabilities. However, advancements in automated robot design [1, 2, 3, 4] promise to revolutionize this landscape. By automating key aspects Figure 1: Text2Robot creates physical robots of the design process, we can drastically reduce from user-specified text prompts and performance development time and costs, allowing industries preferences while considering realworld to rapidly produce specialized robots and enabling electronics and manufacturability.