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Sam Kriegman

@samkriegman.com
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Northwestern University assistant professor. Interested in evolution, robots, AI and ALife. www.xenobot.group

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Sam Kriegman @samkriegman.com · 17/08/2026
If you’re in Waterloo for #alife2026 check out David's talk on "Zero-Shot Robot Design with Residual Physics" residual-design.github.io 🗓️ Wed Aug 19 ⏰ 10:40am 📍 LH1010
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 16/07/2026
A drone that spins 25 times a second attempts can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators admit that it can still be easily heard
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Stealth drone spins so fast that it disappears | New Scientist
A drone that spins 25 times a second attempts can avoid being spotted by becoming nothing more than a vague blur – though the creators admit that it can still be easily heard
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Sam Kriegman @samkriegman.com · 08/03/2026
These are legged metamachines, legged machines made of legged machines… Website: modularlegs.github.io Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ritu Raman @rituraman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Always a blast introducing new folks to the history + future of #biohybrid #robotics - today at the University of Bristol SoftLab Seminar! Great to get feedback on what we've done so far + an exciting reminder of how much we have left to keep us busy in the coming decades 😊
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊
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The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism
How does the genome encode the form of the organism? What is the nature of this genomic code? Inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience, we propose that the genome encodes a generat...
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Kyrre Glette @kyrre2000.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻
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Josh Bongard @doctorjosh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today's evolutionary #robotics lecture: bipedal locomotion. In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks. youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw
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2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 16. Bipedal locomotion.
YouTube video by Josh Bongard
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Sam Kriegman @samkriegman.com · 19/02/2025
New paper w/ Luke Strgar sites.google.com/view/co-desi... ...in a nutshell: ⛰️ differentiable physics 🏋️ morphological pretraining 🧠 a universal controller 🧬 zero shot evolution 💡 adaptive phototaxis ☠️ diversity collapse 🔧 generational finetuning 🦘 few shot evolution
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Sam Kriegman @samkriegman.com · 03/02/2025
Muhan Li will present his freeform endoskeletal robots at ICLR in April: endoskeletal.github.io Evolve yours at home today!
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