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GENES CONTROLLING ORIENTATION. "Quantitative genetics analyses in several animal systems suggests that migratory orientation has a strong genetic component. Nevertheless, the exact identity of genes controlling orientation remains largely unknown." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

ENDOGENOUS GPS. "The amazing accuracy of migratory orientation performance across the animal kingdom is facilitated by the use of magnetic and celestial compass systems that provide individuals with both directional and positional information that provide individuals with both directional and positional information." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ 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

MOLECULAR SWARMS. "We anticipate that this strategy will result in more complex robotic behaviour at the molecular level if additional control mechanisms are incorporated. One example might be interactions between multiple molecular robots leading to collective behaviour; another might be the ability to read and transform secondary cues on the DNA origami landscape as a means of implementing Turing-universal algorithmic behaviour." This is how nature works. https://lnkd.in/dyH7qBg View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR INFORMATION LIMITS. "Traditional robots rely for their function on computing, to store internal representations of their goals and environment and to coordinate sensing and any actuation of components required in response. Moving robotics to the single-molecule level is possible in principle, but requires facing the limited ability of individual molecules to store complex information and programs." (The Lund bot). https://lnkd.in/dyH7qBg View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. "Vicsek’s drones are free in their movements. Tell them to form a rotating ring, or a straight line, and they’ll coordinate themselves into the right position. Tell them that they’re heading towards an imaginary alleyway, and they’ll queue up to squeeze through a gap." http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/27/a-bird-like-flock-of-autonomous-drones/ View in LinkedIn

CELL MOBILITY. “The hallmark of collective migration is the action of cellular mechanisms that control and shape the motility of the individual cells in the group. Despite the broad impact on normal development and disease, the molecular mechanisms that facilitate collective migration are still not well understood.” https://lnkd.in/dz4nHjA View in LinkedIn