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"Roboselection": Review of Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines, by Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano. Reviewed by David B. Fogel. American Scientist, July-August 2001.
The book under review summarizes case studies in the growing field of "evolutionary robotics", in which "genetic algorithms, a branch of evolutionary computation, is often used to optimize robotic control architectures. These architectures often take the form of an artificial neural network, a mathematical model based loosely on the way biological neural networks are believed to operate". The book describes experiments with a variety of robots, and the reviewer states that the book "will be welcomed by those interested in building complex robots or simple robots doing complex things."
--- Annette Emerson
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