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  • About
  • People
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    • Crystallography
    • Fingerprints
    • Hidden Variables
    • Visual Self Modeling
    • Label Representations
    • Robot Visual Behavior Modeling
    • Particle Robotics
    • Deep Self Modeling
    • Evolutionary Self Modeling
    • Self Replication
    • Laser Cooking
    • Digital Food
    • Soft Actuator
    • Layered Assembly
    • Cellular Machines
    • Inverted Laser Sintering
    • Eureqa
    • Golem
    • Data Smashing
    • Jamming Gripper
    • Soft Robot Evolution
    • Truss Reconfiguration
    • Fluidic Assembly
    • Ornithopters
    • Tensegrity
  • Papers
    • Selected Papers
    • All Papers
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  • Open Source
    • Titan Library
    • Fab@Home
    • FreeLoader
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    • Spyndra
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Creative Machines Lab - Columbia University

Aracna Robot

Aracna is a new, quadruped robot platform which requires non-intuitive motor commands in order to locomote and thus provides an interesting challenge for gait learning algorithms, such as those frequently developed in the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life communities. Aracna is an open-source hardware project composed of off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts, enabling other research teams to modify its design according to their scientific needs.

​Aracna is comprised of entirely open source hardware and software. Current Aracna development is taking place in the GitHub repo linked below. Legacy software can still be found here, and mechanical designs can still be found here. This project is licensed under the GNU General Public (Open-Source) License.

learn more

https://github.com/CreativeMachinesLab/aracna

Project participants

  • Sara Lohmann, Jason Yosinski, Eric Gold, Jeff Clune, Jeremy Blum, and Hod Lipson

Related Publications

  • Sara Lohmann, Jason Yosinski, Eric Gold, Jeff Clune, Jeremy Blum, and Hod Lipson. Aracna: An open-source quadruped platform for evolutionary robotics. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2012.

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