Self-reconfigurable modular robot M-TRAN: distributed control and communication
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
Design of prismatic cube modules for convex corner traversal in 3D
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Stochastic modular robotic systems: a study of fluidic assembly strategies
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Modular robot path planning using genetic algorithm based on gene pool
ISICA'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in computation and intelligence
Hyperform specification: designing and interacting with self-reconfiguring materials
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
The mathematical model and control scheme of a four-legged robot based on GZ-I and note module
ICIRA'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Intelligent robotics and applications - Volume Part I
A heterogeneous modular robotic design for fast response to a diversity of tasks
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Modular and reconfigurable mobile robotics
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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Long-term physical survivability of most robotic systems today is achieved through durable hardware. In contrast, most biological systems are not made of robust materials; long-term sustainability and evolutionary adaptation in nature are provided through processes of self-repair and, ultimately, self-reproduction. Here we demonstrate a large space of possible robots capable of autonomous self-reproduction. These robots are composed of actuated modules equipped with electromagnets to selectively control the morphology of the robotic assembly. We show a variety of 2-D and 3-D machines from 3 to 2n modules, and two physical implementations that each achieves two generations of reproduction. We show both automatically generated and manually designed morphologies