This document provides an overview of the EVOBODY project, which aims to develop new principles of unbound embodied evolution for information processing. Funded by the EU, the project seeks to design autonomous physical units that can reproduce, be selected for survival based on computing tasks, and evolve over time to continuously improve their computing capabilities through an asynchronous evolutionary process without central control. Major challenges include designing the physical units, enabling autonomous reproduction and inheritance, and balancing general survival with task-specific selection.

1. EVOBODY – project overviewnew principles of unbound embodied evolution Funded by: EU FET Proactive Initiative SA on AWARENESS Identifier: FP7-258334 Duration: 01.06.2010 - 31.05.2011 Partners: VU University Amsterdam University of Stuttgart

2. About EU FET Proactive Initiative SAs Aim:to organise consultations of multi-disciplinary communities to formulate novel and widely supported FET research topics, initiatives and modalities in support of foundational research that could open up radically new avenues for future ICT.

3. ≤ 2010: design-time adaptation EVO BODY

6. Synthetic biology

7. Bio-molecular sciences

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11. optimize energy and material consumption by producing units when needed and terminating units when they are not necessary anymore (“feasibility equation” = …)

12. continuously improve their computing capabilities through evolution

14. To summarise Evolution / adaptivity design -> run-time Bodies mechatronic -> bio-synthetic Information processing non von-Neumannian computing

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