RoboGrammar System Automates and Optimizes Robot Design

The shape of a robot determines what types of tasks it can perform and environment it can operate in. With current technological limitations, there is no way to build and test each form, but a new system developed by researchers at MIT allows for these many forms to be simulated. After simulations, the best of them can be picked out of the group. The new system is called RoboGrammar, and the first step is to inform it what types of robot parts are available, such as wheels and joints. You then indicate the type of terrain the robot will operate on, but that's basically it.