AI Designs Purple Blob Robot That Can Walk in Seconds

Researchers used AI to design a purple, blob-like robot capable of walking. The AI took just 26 seconds to come up with the design.

The AI rediscovered that legs are an efficient form of mobility without being explicitly told to design a legged robot.

The team 3D printed the AI's design, which has pneumatic "muscles" that allow it to walk at half the speed of a human stride.

This "instant evolution" process is much faster than previous AI-designed robots, which took weeks on supercomputers.

The lead researcher sees this as the birth of a new organism, though others may see it as a useless gadget.