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  • 2015/01 - A nice post about our Creadapt project on IEEE Spectrum - see [press coverage]
  • 2014/12 - Our paper "Evolving a Behavioral Repertoire for a Walking Robot." has been accepted in the journal Evolutionary Computation [publications]
  • 2014/10 - We are hiring new interns (master students) / Phd Students, etc. Please contact me if you are interested
  • 2014/09 - Our last video has now more than 100,000 views! [youtube]
  • 2014/05 - Our group will give 8 talks at ALife 2014! - (2 tutorials, 1 workshop, 5 scientific talks).
  • 2014/04 - Antoine Cully was interviewed by Radio France International to talk about our resilient robot! [see press coverage]
  • 2014/04 - A lot of our software is now available on github
  • 2014/01 - Our paper about the new Creadapt robot has been accepted at the CLAWAR conference
  • 2013/10 - We have a new post-doc (Danesh Tarapore)!
  • 2013/09 - Our paper "On the relationships between Generative Encodings, Regularity and Learning Abilities when Evolving Plastic Neural networks" has been accepted in PlosONE (see [publications])
  • 2013/08 - Our work about resilient robotics has been covered in IEEE Spectrum, Discovery.com, Gizmag, Gizmodo, ... [see press coverage]
  • 2013/07 - Antoine's video has been nominated for the "Best Student Video Award" at the AAAI video competition
  • 2013/07 New papers at GECCO 2013 and CEC 2013 (see [publications])
  • 2013/06 - Our paper Fast Damage Recovery in Robotics with the T-Resilience Algorithm has been accepted in the International Journal of Robotics Research. [pdf]
  • 2013/04 - We are hiring a postdoc in evolutionary robotics [see our open positions]. Position is now filled!
  • 2013/02 - Our work about the evolutionary origins of modularity has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, press coverage by Carl Zimmer, Science Daily, Fast Company, phys.org, ... [see press coverage]
  • 2013/01 - Our project Creadapt (ANR young researcher grant) started
  • 2012/07 - We won the Vizualization competition at the GECCO 2012 conference (with Jeff Clune) [pdf]
  • 2011/09 - Our paper "Online Discovery of Locomotion Modes for Wheel-Legged Hybrid Robots: a Transferability-based Approach." received the "highly recommended" award in the category "Control of CLAWAR" [pdf]
  • 2011/07 - Our paper "On the Relationships between Synaptic Plasticity and Generative Systems." received the best paper awards of the GDS track of GECCO 2011 [pdf]