将虚拟机器人的抽象设计自动转化为可制造的完整蓝图。
Creating manufacturable blueprints for coarse-grained virtual robots
- 通过嵌入电机、电池等部件的结构语义，逐步解析制造约束。
- 输入抽象设计或用户/AI草图，输出可直接建造的完整蓝图。
- 适合机器人设计新手或希望加速原型开发的研究者。
过去三十年间，大量虚拟仿生体在计算机模拟中自由演化，但极少能转化为真实机器人。这是因为演化过程以抽象层级进行，虽便于形态生成与变异，却丢失了功能部件的物理细节，导致设计粗糙且不完整，难以直接制造。本文提出一种自动化流程，将易于演化的简化设计空间映射为可直接执行的完整蓝图。该流程通过逐步嵌入电机、电子元件、电池和布线的结构与功能语义，解决制造约束。用户可提供自定义或由AI生成的“草图”作为输入，使系统具备灵活适应新机器人设计的能力，显著加速从概念到实物的转化。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Over the past three decades, countless embodied yet virtual agents have freely evolved inside computer simulations, but vanishingly few were realized as physical robots. This is because evolution was conducted at a level of abstraction that was convenient for freeform body generation (creation, mutation, recombination) but swept away almost all of the physical details of functional body parts. The resulting designs were crude and underdetermined, requiring considerable effort and expertise to convert into a manufacturable format. Here, we automate this mapping from simplified design spaces that are readily evolvable to complete blueprints that can be directly followed by a builder. The pipeline incrementally resolves manufacturing constraints by embedding the structural and functional semantics of motors, electronics, batteries, and wiring into the abstract virtual design. In lieu of evolution, a user-defined or AI-generated ``sketch'' of a body plan can also be fed as input to the pipeline, providing a versatile framework for accelerating the design of novel robots.
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