Sam Kriegman, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, shows off one of the robots designed by his team's AI.
Sam Kriegman, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, shows off one of the robots designed by his team's AI.
  • A group of researchers asked AI to design a walking robot.
  • The result was a robot that "looks nothing like any animal that has ever walked the earth," per the researchers.
  • They weren't sure why AI designed a robot with this peculiar shape.

When a group of researchers asked an AI to design a robot that could walk, it created a "small, squishy and misshapen" thing that walks by spasming when filled with air.