Automated Creativity: Designing Robots Through Artificial Evolution | Nick Cheney | TEDxCornellU

This TEDxCornell talk focuses on the use of evolutionary algorithms as a method to invoke automated idea generation and computer creativity in functional and aesthetic design. Nick Cheney is a Computational Biology PhD Candidate at Cornell and a Visiting Fellow at the Vermont Complex Systems Center. His research focuses on emergent complexity in artificial life, with an emphasis on embodiment and morphology in evolving systems. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but indepe