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Springer Artificial Life Models In Hardware 2009 Edition by Andrew Adamatzky, Maciej Komosinski
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. Table of contents : 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.- Reaction-Diffusion Controllers for Robots.