Cambridge's Rika Antonova on co-evolving robot bodies and brains, Co-design Gym expansion
contactrika · x · 2026-10-22
Rika Antonova, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, appeared on the Robot Talk Podcast to discuss robot evolution and co-design — using AI to develop complementary robot hardware and algorithms. Her team is stepping up efforts to incorporate more environments into their Co-design Gym.
Her research spans co-design, automated algorithm discovery, data-efficient reinforcement learning, exploration and active learning; she previously was a senior software engineer at Google. The episode is part of ARIA's Robot Dexterity programme.
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