Build a body. Let it learn to move.
STRIDE is an evolutionary robotics playground about discovering movement. Choose a body, reshape its joints, and set a terrain, then let successive generations search for a gait that carries the creature farther. Each generation tests 36 candidates in ten-second trials, with best and median distance charted so the changes are visible. Mutation and gravity controls let you alter the experiment, while an ancestor race compares the latest champion with its starting point. Export a creature's DNA to keep its configuration, bring it back later, or share the same lineage. The experience makes an optimization process tangible through a moving body and measured results.
Open STRIDE
Shape the experiment
Choose and reshape a creature across three terrain challenges
Watch movement evolve
Evolve 36 candidates per generation and compare best and median distance
Follow the lineage
Race an ancestor and import or export a creature's DNA
Human direction. Working technology.
React UI renders a two-dimensional muscle-and-joint physics simulation on Canvas. Evolution runs in a module Web Worker that returns generation, best distance, median distance, genome, and evaluated-candidate counts.
Built in our in-house R&D environment. Different projects call for different tools; the experience leads the decisions.