Josh Bongard

    Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory

    Associate Professor

    Department of Computer Science

    University of Vermont

    329 Votey Hall, Burlington, VT 05405

    Tel: (802) 656-4665; Fax: (802) 656-0696

    Curriculum Vitae: PDF

    josh.bongard@uvm.edu

    New Research Teaching Media Publications The Zoo PhD Thesis MSc Thesis Misc

    Miscellaneous Coverage

    [VID] "Robotics and Humanity" (Apr, 2012)
    [PDF] Science News: "Software Scientist" (Jan, 2012)
    [PDF] Irish Times: "iRobot" (Nov 16, 2011)
    [mp3] Financial Times Podcast (May, 2011)
    [PDF] Science News: "Meet the Growbots" (Jan. 29, 2011)
    [PDF] University of Vermont Honors College (January, 2010)
    [PDF] Discover Magazine (June, 2008)
    [PDF] Burlington Free Press article (May 18, 2007)

    Media Coverage for Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2011)
    [PDF] White House Press Release: President Obama honors outstanding early career scientists (Sept, 2011)
    [PDF] UVM Press Release: President Obama Honors UVM Robotics Scientist (Sept, 2011)
    [PDF] Rutland Herald: UVM scientist wins highest national award (Sept, 2011)

    Media Coverage for Metamorphosing Machines (2011)
    [PDF] The Why Files: "Dr. Darwin teaches robot." (Jan. 5, 2012)
    [PDF] American Scientist: "Bringing Up Robots" (February, 2011)
    [VID] Local Vermont television (WCAX) interview (Feb. 11, 2011)
    [PDF] Vermont Cynic: "Evolution fuels robot research" (Feb. 14, 2011)

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    Discover Blog: "Robots that Evolve Like Animals Are Touch and Smart--Like Animals" (Feb. 14, 2011)

    [PDF] Boston Globe: "Artificial intelligence based on Darwin’s idea" (Jan. 31, 2011)
    [PDF] Burlington Free Press: "UVM professor explores robot's ability to evolve" (Feb. 7, 2011)
    [PDF] CBS: "Scientists: Robots Learn to Walk in Stages" (Jan. 25, 2011)
    [bmp] On the front of the National Science Foundation's website (Jan. 31, 2011)
    [mp3] Voice of America, Our World (Jan. 29, 2011)
    [PDF] Wired: "Robots Evolve More Natural Ways of Walking" (Jan. 26, 2011)
    [PDF] Popular Science: "Evolutionary Robots Learn to Crawl Before They Walk" (Jan. 25, 2011)
    [PDF] New Scientist: "Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots" (Jan. 10, 2011)
    [PDF] Robaid: "Evolutive morphological change of robots enhances their capabilities" (Jan. 14, 2011)
    [PDF] Kurzweilai.net: "Evolutionary robotics: for robust robots, let them be babies first" (Jan. 21, 2011)

    Media Coverage for Resilient Machines (2006/2007)
    [PDF] New Scientist: " 'Self-aware' space rovers would be speedy explorers" (Sept. 21, 2007)
    [PDF] Esquire: "Six ideas that will change the world [Machines That Fix Themselves]" (Nov. 11, 2007)
    [mp3] Vermont Public Radio interview
    [PDF] Part of Slate.com's five biggest neuroscience developments of the year
    [wmv] Discovery Channel TV Interview
    [mp3] EPFL Talking Robots podcast (with Hod Lipson) (Switzerland)
    [wmv] New England Cable News (NECN) TV Interview
    [PDF] USA Today
    [PDF] Forbes
    [PDF] New Scientist (UK)
    [PDF] MIT Technology Review
    [PDF] MSNBC
    [PDF] Nature News
    [PDF] Science News
    [mp3] Science Update podcast
    [PDF] National Geographic
    [PDF] The Guardian (UK)
    [wma] The Guardian podcast (UK)
    [PDF] Scientific American
    [PDF] Slashdot
    [PDF] InformationWeek
    [PDF] University of Vermont Interview
    [PDF] The Globe and Mail (Canada)
    [PDF] The Future of Things (Israel)
    [PDF] Cosmos (Australia)
    [PDF] Russian Newsweek
    [PDF] V Magazine
    [PDF] Die Zeit (Germany) [English translation]
    [mp3] Deutschelandfunk, podcast (Germany; German only)

    Media Coverage for Artificial Ontogeny (2002/2003)
    Nature builds other robots  [Neue Zuercher Zeitungen] (German / English)
    [PDF] ’Animals' grown from an artificial embryo  [New Scientist]
    [PDF] Virtual Genetic Evolution [Slashdot]
    [PDF] Scientists plot evolution of virtual creatures  [Ananova]
    [PDF] Brother Machinemen [Translated into English from Der Spiegel, the German news magazine]
    [PDF] The Fairytale of Intelligent Monsters (2001)

    Comments on Others' Work
    [PDF] New Scientist: Darwin's Robots (Sept, 2011)
    [PDF] Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws (2009)