Joshua Bongard
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Bongard's work focuses on understanding the general nature of cognition, regardless of whether it is found in humans, animals or robots. This unique approach focuses on the role that morphology and evolution plays in cognition. Addressing these questions has taken him into the fields of biology, psychology, engineering and computer science.
Selected Publications
Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nov. 29, 2021
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jan. 13, 2020
Scalable co-optimization of morphology and control in embodied machines
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, June 13, 2018
Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling
Science, Nov. 17, 2006
Selected Press
Xenobots on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dec. 6, 2021
Meet the xenobots, virtual creatures brought to life
New York Times, April 3, 2020
Reddit brings a UVM evolutionary robotics class to the world
Seven Days, May 25, 2016