Sam Kriegman
@samkriegman.com
Northwestern University assistant professor. Interested in evolution, robots, AI and ALife.
https://www.xenobot.group
https://www.xenobot.group
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Always a blast introducing new folks to the history + future of #biohybrid #robotics - today at the University of Bristol SoftLab Seminar! Great to get feedback on what we've done so far + an exciting reminder of how much we have left to keep us busy in the coming decades 😊
June 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Always a blast introducing new folks to the history + future of #biohybrid #robotics - today at the University of Bristol SoftLab Seminar! Great to get feedback on what we've done so far + an exciting reminder of how much we have left to keep us busy in the coming decades 😊
Reposted by Sam Kriegman
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism
How does the genome encode the form of the organism? What is the nature of this genomic
code? Inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience, we propose that
the genome encodes a generat...
www.cell.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The Genomic Code: the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.cell.com/trends/genet... - really delighted to see this in print in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! 😊
Reposted by Sam Kriegman
Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻
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Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Excited to share our new paper just out in Scientific Reports!
🧠🎧 Using intracranial EEG, we show how the human brain automatically encodes patterns in random sounds– without attention or explicit awareness.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Direct brain recordings reveal implicit encoding of structure in random auditory streams - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Direct brain recordings reveal implicit encoding of structure in random auditory streams
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Our new neuroscience paper - hot off the press! Check it out! 🧠🧠🧠💻💻💻
Reposted by Sam Kriegman
Today's evolutionary #robotics lecture: bipedal locomotion.
In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks.
youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw
In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks.
youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw
2025 Evolutionary robotics course. Lecture 16. Bipedal locomotion.
YouTube video by Josh Bongard
youtu.be
March 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Today's evolutionary #robotics lecture: bipedal locomotion.
In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks.
youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw
In which John Cleese and yours truly demonstrate several silly walks.
youtu.be/4o9CZK8Azcw
Reposted by Sam Kriegman
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social presents to the United Nations on how xenobots (Doug Blackiston & @samkriegman.com), anthrobots (Gizem Gumuskaya), and other discoveries from his lab can serve as "agential materials" that AI can employ to interface with the body.
www.youtube.com/live/T40utCZ...
www.youtube.com/live/T40utCZ...
AI as a translator interface to the wisdom of the living body
YouTube video by AI for Good
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social presents to the United Nations on how xenobots (Doug Blackiston & @samkriegman.com), anthrobots (Gizem Gumuskaya), and other discoveries from his lab can serve as "agential materials" that AI can employ to interface with the body.
www.youtube.com/live/T40utCZ...
www.youtube.com/live/T40utCZ...
New paper w/ Luke Strgar
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
New paper w/ Luke Strgar
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
sites.google.com/view/co-desi...
...in a nutshell:
⛰️ differentiable physics
🏋️ morphological pretraining
🧠 a universal controller
🧬 zero shot evolution
💡 adaptive phototaxis
☠️ diversity collapse
🔧 generational finetuning
🦘 few shot evolution
Muhan Li will present his freeform endoskeletal robots at ICLR in April:
endoskeletal.github.io
Evolve yours at home today!
endoskeletal.github.io
Evolve yours at home today!
February 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Muhan Li will present his freeform endoskeletal robots at ICLR in April:
endoskeletal.github.io
Evolve yours at home today!
endoskeletal.github.io
Evolve yours at home today!