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SHAPE MORPHING. "L-form bacteria are pleomorphic, that is, they can change size and shape. During much of their lifetimes they are tiny, about 0.01 microns in diameter. Since they are smaller than viruses or fungal particles, they cannot be seen with a normal optical microscope. The small, individual forms of L-form bacteria are often referred to as coccoid bodies. Coccoid bodies sometimes group together, assuming the appearance of a string of pearls." http://mpkb.org/home/pathogenesis/microbiota/lforms View in LinkedIn

"A ROBOT SWARM is a self-organizing multi-robot system characterized by high redundancy. Robots’ sensing and communication capabilities are local and robots do not have access to global information. The collective behavior of the robot swarm emerges from the interactions of each individual robot with its peers and with the environment. Typically, a robot swarm is composed of homogeneous robots, although some examples of heterogeneous robot swarms do exist." http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Swarm_robotics View in LinkedIn

BIOINSPIRED KILOBITS. "Just as trillions of individual cells can assemble into an intelligent organism, or 1,000 starlings can form a great flowing murmuration across the sky, the Kilobots demonstrate how complexity can arise from very simple behaviors performed en masse." http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/08/the-1000-robot-swarm/ View in LinkedIn

SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "Smart module, or smart pebble, has only a small amount of processing power and memory, so individual modules cannot store a complete digital map of the object to be assembled. Each has to acquire only a certain amount of information, and by sharing pieces of data they must solve the problem collectively." https://lnkd.in/dBu7JMS View in LinkedIn

PRELUDE. Smart cubes are model systems to develop methods for much smaller scale units, such as Smart Sand. Progress on smart cubes has been significant, but ultimately, nanoscale structures and components will win the day. View in LinkedIn

SMART CUBES. "Each uses the momentum of flywheels spinning at up to 20,000 rotations per minute to roll over, climb on top of one another, and even leap through the air ... At the moment, the experimenters must provide the instructions for sticking together. Their plan, though, is to develop algorithms that allow the cubes themselves to decide when they need to hook up." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

BACK TO CLAYTRONICS after the weekend Fragment From Nature. We continue with progress on model robotics with swarm behavior drivers that exploit relatively simple intelligence units making a SUPERORGANISM with a greater intelligence. View in LinkedIn

INVISIBLE TO NORMAL LAB TESTS. "The inability of most research labs to culture cell wall deficient (CWD) bacteria has been an obstacle to their acceptance, and reliance on Koch’s postulates has made it difficult to correlate CWD bacteria to specific diseases." Also, invisible to light microscopy. https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

THE BODY IS BLIND TO L-FORMS. "The lack of a cell wall enables them to enter human cells and proliferate because they fail to elicit an appropriate response when the immune system is compromised." https://lnkd.in/dDKztC5 View in LinkedIn

UNDETECTED. "Precisely because they lack a cell wall, many antibiotics are unable to kill L-form bacteria directly and they also cannot be detected by many standard laboratory tests that rely upon staining the cell wall. The lack of a cell wall also means that they are able to enter and proliferate inside body cells and also to go undetected by the immune system." https://lnkd.in/dTCkxDw View in LinkedIn