MALIBU – HRL Laboratories will lead an expert team on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Physical Intelligence Program, with the goal of developing a physically grounded understanding of intelligence that can be applied to engineered systems.

The team will establish a thermodynamically rigorous foundation for generating engineered intelligence. The objective is to discover and understand the underlying processes that give rise to biological intelligence and to emulate these processes in non-biological systems to achieve tailored evolutionary advances.

In the initial 18-month phase of the program, HRL will develop three examples demonstrating the feasibility of engineering systems that exhibit physical intelligence, as well as analysis tools that can monitor a system and quantify when physical intelligence occurs and the degree of intelligence attained.

This research is part of HRL’s new Center for Neural & Emergent Computational Systems.

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