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MIGRATORY PATH AND GENES. "Many components of migratory behaviour, such as the amount, timing and intensity of migratory activity, are under strong genetic control, at least in small night-migrating passerines. Also cross-breeding experiments among groups of European blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) that differed in migratory behaviour indicated a strong genetic basis of this behaviour." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/02/11/rspb.2010.2567 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE deals with the genetics of the sense of place for this and next weekend. Frustrating, illusive, and challenging characterizes the hunt for migratory genes. But the physical gene itself is only the start. How can a string of nucleotides communicate a journey and a destination? And time after time to millions of creatures, and be plastic enough to modify as the climate changes? A challenge perhaps beyond our capacity to seriously consider. At least, for now. View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT PROPERTIES. "Outdoor flocking and formation flight with autonomous aerial robots. We present the first decentralized multi-copter flock that performs stable autonomous outdoor flight with up to 10 flying agents. By decentralized and autonomous we mean that all members navigate themselves based on the dynamic information received from other robots in the vicinity. We do not use central data processing or control." https://lnkd.in/d3iDMRC View in LinkedIn

ROBOT SOCCER. "The robot soccer system is associated with cooperation, decision-making, planning, modeling, learning, robot architecture, vision tracking algorithm, sensing, communication, and so forth." https://lnkd.in/d77jvk3 View in LinkedIn

DNA FACTORY. "In principle, this method should allow the stepwise and programmed construction of target products by linking individually selected nanoscale components—much as an automobile is built on an assembly line." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7295/full/nature09026.html View in LinkedIn

THE GU ROBOT. "An alternative approach to nanoscale assembly uses information-containing molecules such as DNA to control interactions and thereby minimize unwanted cross-talk between different components." https://lnkd.in/dAgytm4 View in LinkedIn

BIG STEP. "This is the first time that systems of nanomachines, rather than individual devices, have been used to perform operations, constituting a crucial advance in the evolution of DNA nanotechnology.” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn

NANO-ASSEMBLY LINE. "But Gu’s robot isn’t alone. It’s accompanied by three more DNA ‘loading’ machines, each carrying a different cargo of gold particles – a small 5-nanometre one, a pair of these, and a large(r) 10-nanometre one. By tweaking the settings of the loaders, Gu can create eight possible products, forged of a combination of the three types of gold particles." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR NANOFACTORY. "At New York University, Hongzhou Gu has also built a DNA robot that walks on a DNA origami landscape. His walker isn’t quite as independent as Lund’s and needs the right triggers to take its steps. But what it sacrifices in autonomy, it makes up for in complexity.” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn

ROBOT FACTORY. “This robot is part of a nano-factory, a miniature assembly line that can manufacture eight different products." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn