Eiben, A. E., and Emma Hart. “If it evolves it needs to learn.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion , pp. 1383-1384. 2020.
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We elaborate on (future) evolutionary robot systems where morphologies and controllers of real robots are evolved in the real-world. We argue that such systems must contain a learning component where a newborn robot refines its inherited controller to align with its body, which will inevitably be different from its parents.