"The snuggle is real": Evolving quadcopter frame geometry for Wh/km, with Claude as an occasional co-designer
I let a genetic algorithm loose on the geometry of a 7-inch quadcopter frame — the real, open-source Source One V6 plate drawings, morphed by fourteen genes and flown through six simulated weather scenarios, with Claude sitting in every few generations to propose designs from the run’s own telemetry. The bottom line: we evolved the champion to fly 16% more efficiently (Wh/km) across six weather scenarios.