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Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection

  • Dario Floreano ,

    * E-mail: Dario.Floreano@epfl.ch (DF); Laurent.Keller@unil.ch (LK)

    Affiliation Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Laurent Keller

    * E-mail: Dario.Floreano@epfl.ch (DF); Laurent.Keller@unil.ch (LK)

    Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection

  • Dario Floreano, 
  • Laurent Keller
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  • Published: January 26, 2010
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292
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