Neural networks evolved to produce gaits for legged robots. The use of the HyperNEAT generative encoding produces geometric patterns (regularities) in the neural wiring of the evolved brains, which improves performance by producing coordinated, regular leg movements.
Evolving artificial neural networks (ANNs) and gaits for robots are difficult, time-consuming tasks for engineers, making them suitable for evolutionary algorithms (aka genetic algorithms). Generative encodings (aka indirect and developmental encodings) perform better than direct encodings by producing neural regularities that result in behavioral regularities.