Swarm of One: Bottom-Up Emergence of Stable Robot Bodies from Identical Cells
Trevor Smith,R. Michael Butts,Nathan Adkins,Yu Gu,Trevor Smith,R. Michael Butts,Nathan Adkins,Yu Gu
Unlike most human-engineered systems, biological systems are emergent from low-level interactions, allowing much broader diversity and superior adaptation to complex environments. Inspired by the process of morphogenesis in nature, a bottom-up design approach for robot morphology is proposed to treat a robot's body as an emergent response to underlying processes rather than a predefined shape. Thi...
