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Artificial Life Models in Hardware

  • Unique representation of the current state-of-the-art research in robotics
  • Written by top international experts in robotics and artificial life

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot

    • James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. Mills
    Pages 1-20
  3. Learning Legged Locomotion

    • Fumiya Iida, Simon Bovet
    Pages 21-33
  4. Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot

    • Toshio Fukuda, Tadayoshi Aoyama, Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Kosuke Sekiyama
    Pages 65-86
  5. Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach

    • Paolo Arena, Sebastiano De Fiore, Luca Patané
    Pages 103-132
  6. Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers

    • Tetsuya Asai, Takahide Oya
    Pages 133-159
  7. Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots

    • Shuhei Miyashita, Max Lungarella, Rolf Pfeifer
    Pages 161-184
  8. Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots

    • Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, John Greenman, Chris Melhuish, Ian Horsfield
    Pages 185-211
  9. The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould

    • Soichiro Tsuda, Stefan Artmann, Klaus-Peter Zauner
    Pages 213-232
  10. Reaction–Diffusion Controllers for Robots

    • Andrew Adamatzky, Benjamin De Lacy Costello, Hiroshi Yokoi
    Pages 233-264
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 265-267

About this book

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.

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From the reviews:

"This book presents various contributions to the construction of life-like artifacts that globally show adaptation and evolution, as in the artificial life paradigm. … The book is unique in that it attempts to mix various ideas on building artificial life in hardware … . the book moves toward new methods and tools that represent the cutting edge of research. … this book is appropriate for research; in the long term, it can serve as a reference." (G. Gini, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Andrew Adamatzky

  • Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Maciej Komosinski

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