Artificial Ontogenies for Real World Design and Assembly

Relatively few evolved designs have made the transition to the real world. Of those that have, all have been built by hand based upon descriptive representations (i.e. blueprints) of the evolved object. As such, human effort is transferred from the design to the assembly domain. In this paper we suggest harnessing the procedural representations provided by Artificial Ontogenies to fully automate both design a dassembly. We demonstrate the ability of Artificial Ontogenies to cross one hurdle of real-world assembly, namely reliably building structures in noisy environments. We then discuss the advantages of Artificial Ontogenies for Automated Design and Assembly, and offer suggestions for the future of the field.