Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Arrival of a Talos robot in our team (Fig. 1). This is a full-scale humanoid (1.7 m / 100kg / 32 degrees of freedom) that can be fully torque-controlled. The robot is made by PAL Robotics, a Spanish company and is funded by the CPER “Cyber-Entreprise”.

• Arrival of Pauline Maurice as a CRCN (CNRS).

Awards

• International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) award for the Outstanding Publication of the Decade 2004-2014: Clune J, Mouret JB, Lipson H. The evolutionary origins of modularity. Proceedings of the Royal Society b: Biological sciences. 2013 Mar 22;280(1755):20122863.

Best Paper Award:

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