In a world where technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are transforming ...

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

Evolved robots, or evolutionary robotics, is a field that uses AI-based evolutionary algorithms to design machines by simulating natural selection. Instead of designing a robot directly, engineers ...