Virtual Creatures Contest
Results
The winner of the Virtual Creatures competition at GECCO 2017 is:
Evolving Simulated Modular Robots by Frank Veenstra, Andres Faina, Kasper Stoy, and Sebastian Risi
Honorable Mention for Perceived Animacy: Joint Evolution of Morphologies and Controllers for Realistic Modular Robots by Djouher Akrour, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Stephane Sanchez, Nourredine Djedi and Herve Luga
Honorable Mention for Technical Achievement: Quick testing of evolved robot morphologies using EMERGE modules” by Rodrigo Moreno, Ceyue Liu, Henry Hernandez, Jonatan Gomez, and Andres Faina
Acknowledgements
Thanks again to our great judges:
- Peter Bentley (University College London, UK)
- Auke Jan Ijspeert (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Thomas Ray (Oklahoma University, USA)
- Larry Yaeger (Indiana University, USA)
- Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (IRIT, France)
- Jeff Clune (University of Wyoming, USA)