Artificial Life Models in Hardware [Paperback]

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - Artificial Life Models in Hardware offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.

Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book examines the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic devices.

Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains - Artificial Life Models in Hardware offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.

The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot.- Learning Legged Locomotion.- Salamandra Robotica: A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks.- Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot.- Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker.- Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach.- Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers.- Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots.- Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots.- The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould.- ReactionDiffusion Controllers for Robots.

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This book presents various contributions to the construction of life-like artifacts that globally show adaptation and evolution, as in the artificial life paradl3+