Josh C. Bongard

Orcid: 0000-0001-8515-0822

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  • University of Vermont, USA


According to our database1, Josh C. Bongard authored at least 156 papers between 1999 and 2024.

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2024
Author Correction: A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change.
Nat. Mac. Intell., 2024

Gradient-based Design of Computational Granular Crystals.
CoRR, 2024

Merging Variable Stiffness Fiber Patterns on Multi-Shape Robotic Sheets.
Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2024

Evolving Form and Function: Dual-Objective Optimization in Neural Symbolic Regression Networks.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2024

2023
From rigid to soft to biological robots.
Artif. Life Robotics, May, 2023

Efficient automatic design of robots.
CoRR, 2023

Evolving variable stiffness fiber patterns for multi-shape robotic sheets.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2023

Subtract to Adapt: Autotomic Robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2023

The Metric is the Message: Benchmarking Challenges for Neural Symbolic Regression.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track, 2023

Morphology Choice Affects the Evolution of Affordance Detection in Robots.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023

Universal Mechanical Polycomputation in Granular Matter.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023

Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2023

2022
Editorial: Introduction to the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life Special Issue.
Artif. Life, March, 2022

Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines.
Nat. Mach. Intell., 2022

There's Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-scale Machines.
CoRR, 2022

Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field.
CoRR, 2022

Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata.
CoRR, 2022

Evolving programmable computational metamaterials.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

Empowered neural cellular automata.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

Selecting continuous life-like cellular automata for halting unpredictability: evolving for abiogenesis.
Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

Evolution of Acoustic Logic Gates in Granular Metamaterials.
Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computation - 25th European Conference, 2022

2021
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines.
Sci. Robotics, 2021

A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change.
Nat. Mach. Intell., 2021

A good body is all you need: avoiding catastrophic interference via agent architecture search.
CoRR, 2021

Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XVII, Virtual Event, July 12-16, 2021., 2021

Shape Matching: Evolving Fiber Constraints on a Pneumatic Bilayer.
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2021

2020
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2020

Gaining environments through shape change.
CoRR, 2020

Death and Progress: How Evolvability is Influenced by Intrinsic Mortality.
Artif. Life, 2020

Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs.
Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2020

A Framework for Search and Application Agnostic Interactive Optimization.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020

Morphology dictates learnability in neural controllers.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020

Crowd grounding: finding semantic and behavioral alignment through human robot interaction.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 2020

Sim2real gap is non-monotonic with robot complexity for morphology-in-the-loop flapping wing design.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019
Machine behaviour.
Nat., 2019

Embodiment dictates learnability in neural controllers.
CoRR, 2019

Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots.
CoRR, 2019

Automated Shapeshifting for Function Recovery in Damaged Robots.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XV, 2019

Word2vec to behavior: morphology facilitates the grounding of language in machines.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

2018
Crowdsourcing Predictors of Residential Electric Energy Usage.
IEEE Syst. J., 2018

Neural language representations predict outcomes of scientific research.
CoRR, 2018

Evolving morphology automatically reformulates the problem of designing modular control.
Adapt. Behav., 2018

Understanding Climate-Vegetation Interactions in Global Rainforests Through a GP-Tree Analysis.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XV, 2018

Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018

The effects of morphology and fitness on catastrophic interference.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018

Embodied Embeddings for Hyperneat.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life, 2018

Embodiment can combat catastrophic forgetting.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

Interoceptive robustness through environment-mediated morphological development.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

Combating catastrophic forgetting with developmental compression.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018

Gene Duplication, Modularity, and the Evolution of Intelligence in Simulated and Real Robots.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017
Evolutionary Developmental Soft Robotics As a Framework to Study Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior in Animals and Plants.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2017

Epigenetic Operators and the Evolution of Physically Embodied Robots.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2017

Morphology dictates a robot's ability to ground crowd-proposed language.
CoRR, 2017

How morphological development can guide evolution.
CoRR, 2017

Evolving soft locomotion in aquatic and terrestrial environments: effects of material properties and environmental transitions.
CoRR, 2017

Scalable Co-Optimization of Morphology and Control in Embodied Machines.
CoRR, 2017

Physical Scaffolding Accelerates the Evolution of Robot Behavior.
Artif. Life, 2017

Reducing Training Environments in Evolutionary Robotics Through Ecological Modularity.
Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - 6th International Conference, 2017

Simulating the evolution of soft and rigid-body robots.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

A minimal developmental model can increase evolvability in soft robots.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

Ecological modularity as a means to reduce necessary training environments in evolutionary robotics.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

Choice of robot morphology can prohibit modular control and disrupt evolution.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Conference Artificial Life, 2017

2016
Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2016

Modularity and Sparsity: Evolution of Neural Net Controllers in Physically Embodied Robots.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2016

Morphological Modularity Can Enable the Evolution of Robot Behavior to Scale Linearly with the Number of Environmental Features.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2016

WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web.
Artif. Life, 2016

Semantic Forward Propagation for Symbolic Regression.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV, 2016

Exploring Uncertainty and Movement in Categorical Perception Using Robots.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV, 2016

Evolving Spatially Aggregated Features from Satellite Imagery for Regional Modeling.
Proceedings of the Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV, 2016

Reducing Antagonism between Behavioral Diversity and Fitness in Semantic Genetic Programming.
Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Denver, CO, USA, July 20, 2016

Recombination Hotspots Promote the Evolvability of Modular Systems.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2016

Embodiment Effects in Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

What we write about when we write about causality: Features of causal statements across large-scale social discourse.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2016

On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

Social Contribution in the Design of Adaptive Machines on the Web.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

Material properties affect evolutions ability to exploit morphological computation in growing soft-bodied creatures.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

Robots can ground crowd-proposed symbols by forming theories of group mind.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2016

2015
Embodied Intelligence.
Proceedings of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, 2015

Active Learning through Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembling.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2015

Nonlinear functional mapping of the human brain.
CoRR, 2015

Crowdseeding: A Novel Approach for Designing Bioinspired Machines.
Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - 4th International Conference, 2015

A Genetic Programming Approach to Cost-Sensitive Control in Resource Constrained Sensor Systems.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

An Embodied Approach for Evolving Robust Visual Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

Crowdseeding Robot Design.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

Evolving Robot Morphology Facilitates the Evolution of Neural Modularity and Evolvability.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

Exploiting the Relationship Between Structural Modularity and Sparsity for Faster Network Evolution.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

2014
Environmental Influence on the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Machines.
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2014

Evolved Machines Shed Light on Robustness and Resilience.
Proc. IEEE, 2014

Collective Design of Robot Locomotion.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

Improving Robot Behavior Optimization by Combining User Preferences.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013
Crowdsourcing Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Syst., 2013

Shadow networks: Discovering hidden nodes with models of information flow.
CoRR, 2013

Evolutionary robotics.
Commun. ACM, 2013

A Deterministic and Symbolic Regression Hybrid Applied to Resting-State fMRI Data.
Proceedings of the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XI [GPTP 2013, 2013

Automatic identification of hierarchy in multivariate data.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2013

Combining fitness-based search and user modeling in evolutionary robotics.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2013

Modeling hierarchy using symbolic regression.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2013

Improving genetic programming based symbolic regression using deterministic machine learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2013

Avoiding local optima with user demonstrations and low-level control.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2013

2012
Accelerating human-computer collaborative search through learning comparative and predictive user models.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

Not all physics simulators can be wrong in the same way.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

Avoiding local optima with interactive evolutionary robotics.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

Interactive simulated robot construction and controller evolution.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

On the relationship between environmental and morphological complexity in evolved robots.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

Learning Comparative User Models for Accelerating Human-Computer Collaborative Search.
Proceedings of the Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, 2012

On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

2011
Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Reducing Robot Shaping From Polynomial to Linear Time.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2011

How Evolution Shapes the Way Roboticists Think.
Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 2011

Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2011

Spontaneous evolution of structural modularity in robot neural network controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Morphological and environmental scaffolding synergize when evolving robot controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

Evolving complete robots with CPPN-NEAT: the utility of recurrent connections.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

2010
Self discovery enables robot social cognition: Are you my teacher?
Neural Networks, 2010

The Utility of Evolving Simulated Robot Morphology Increases with Task Complexity for Object Manipulation.
Artif. Life, 2010

Adaptive Informative Sampling for Active Learning.
Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2010

Ensemble pruning via individual contribution ordering.
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2010

Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

A probabilistic functional crossover operator for genetic programming.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Morphological scaffolding: how evolution and development improve robot behavior generation.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Evolving CPPNs to grow three-dimensional physical structures.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2010

Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009
Accelerating Self-Modeling in Cooperative Robot Teams.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2009

Biologically Inspired Computing.
Computer, 2009

Active Learning with Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembles.
Proceedings of the ICDM 2009, 2009

Exploiting multiple classifier types with active learning.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

Combined structure and motion extraction from visual data using evolutionary active learning.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

The impact of jointly evolving robot morphology and control on adaptation rate.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

Evolution of functional specialization in a morphologically homogeneous robot.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

How robot morphology and training order affect the learning of multiple behaviors.
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009

2008
<i>Probabilistic Robotics</i>. Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox. (2005, MIT Press.) 647 pages.
Artif. Life, 2008

Informative sampling for large unbalanced data sets.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2008

Behavior Chaining - Incremental Behavior Integration for Evolutionary Robotics.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007
Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2007

Reports on the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposia.
AI Mag., 2007

Exploiting multiple robots to accelerate self-modeling.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Action-selection and crossover strategies for self-modeling machines.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 9th European Conference, 2007

How the body shapes the way we think - a new view on intelligence.
MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-16239-5, 2007

2006
Evolutionary Robotics for Legged Machines: From Simulation to Physical Reality.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, 2006

AI in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century - With Historical Reflections.
Proceedings of the 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, 2006

2005
Nonlinear System Identification Using Coevolution of Models and Tests.
IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2005

Active Coevolutionary Learning of Deterministic Finite Automata.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2005

New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems.
Artif. Life, 2005

Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems I, 2005

'Managed challenge' alleviates disengagement in co-evolutionary system identification.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

Co-evolutionary Variance Can Guide Physical Testing in Evolutionary System Identification.
Proceedings of the 2005 NASA / DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH 2005), 29 June, 2005

2004
Automated Damage Diagnosis and Recovery for Remote Robotics.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2004

Automated Robot Function Recovery after Unanticipated Failure or Environmental Change using a Minimum of Hardware Trials.
Proceedings of the 6th NASA / DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH 2004), 2004

2002
Behavioural Selection Pressure Generates Hierarchical Genetic Regulatory Networks.
Proceedings of the GECCO 2002: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2002

Evolving modular genetic regulatory networks.
Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2002

2001
The road less travelled: morphology in the optimization of biped robot locomotion.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001

Making Evolution an Offer It Can't Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001

2000
The Legion System: A Novel Approach to Evolving Hetrogeneity for Collective Problem Solving.
Proceedings of the Genetic Programming, European Conference, 2000

1999
Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999


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