Grading: All of the coursework for 6.836 will be graded out of 100 points. These will be shared between 5 research assignments each accounting for 10 points (10% of the grade) and a final project which will account for 50% of the grade (of which 5 points will be for the project proposal, 10 points for the presentation and 35 points for the project report).
The research assignments are due on Thursdays by 5pm. We will accept paper hand-ins or electronic submissions in PDF format only. See the Late Policy specified on the Announcement and News page for more details.
Day | Date | Lecture | Research assignment | Out | Due |
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Fri | Feb 7 | 1. Artificial creatures | Robot simulator | RA1 | Thu, Feb 20 |
Fri | Feb 14 | 2. Creature renaissance | |||
Fri | Feb 21 | 3. Building physical robots | Embedded controller | RA2 | Thu, Mar 6 |
Fri | Feb 28 | 4. Non-modular computing | |||
Fri | Mar 7 | 5. Self reproduction | Sierra | RA3 | Thu, Mar 20 |
Fri | Mar 14 | 6. Evolving creatures | |||
Fri | Mar 21 | 7. Self reproducing machines | Evolving ants | RA4 | Thu, Apr 10 |
Project proposals due Fri, Mar 21 | |||||
Fri | Mar 28 | SPRING BREAK | |||
Fri | Apr 4 | 8. Evolving robots | |||
Fri | Apr 11 | 9. Genetic programming | Evolving CAs | RA5 | Thu, Apr 24 |
Fri | Apr 18 | 10. Emergence of life | |||
Fri | Apr 25 | 11. Humanoids | |||
Fri | May 2 | No lecture | |||
Fri | May 9 | Project presentations during week | |||
Thu | May 15 | Project Due | |||