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Roberts, S. F.*, Hirokawa, J.*, Rosenblum, H. G.*, Sakhtah, H.*, Gutierrez, A. A.*, Porter, M. E., and J. H. Long, Jr. (2014). Testing biological hypotheses with embodied robots: adaptations, accidents, and by-products in the evolution of vertebrates. Front. Robot. AI, 1(12). doi:10.3389/frobt.2014.00012 weblink
Cho A. (2014). The accidental roboticist. Science, 346: 192-194. pdf
Auerbach, J. E. and Bongard, J. C. (2014). Environmental influence on the evolution of morphological complexity in machines. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(1): e1003399. pdf
Bongard J. (2013). Evolutionary robotics. Communications of the ACM 56(8): 74-85. pdf
Bongard J. (2011). Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(4): 1234-1239. pdf
Bongard J. C. (2010). The utility of evolving simulated robot morphology increases with task complexity for object manipulation. Artificial Life, 16(3): 201-223. pdf
Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006). Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science, 314: 1118-1121. pdf
Doorly, N.*, Irving, K.*, McArthur, G.*, Combie, K.*, Engel, V.*, Sakhtah, H.*, Stickles, E.*, Rosenblum, H.*, Gutierrez, A.*, Root, R., Liew, C-W. and J.H. Long, Jr. (2009). Biomimetic evolutionary analysis: robotically-simulated vertebrates in a predator-prey ecology. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, 147-154. pdf
Long, J.H., Jr. (2012). Darwin’s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology. New York: Basic Books. purchase
Long, J.H., Jr., Krenitsky, N.*, Roberts, S.*, Hirokawa, J.*, de Leeuw, J. and M.E. Porter (2011). Testing biomimetic structures in bioinspired robots: how vertebrae control the stiffness of the body and the behavior of fish-like swimmers. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 51(1), 158-175. pdf
Long, J.H. Jr., Porter, M.E., Liew, C.W. and R.G. Root (2010). Go reconfigure: how fish change shape as they swim and evolve. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50(6), 1120-1139. pdf
Pfeifer R. and Bongard J. (2006) How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence, MIT Press, November.