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DISTORTED KNOWLEDGE. "Although human cultural transmission through observational learning and language serves this function, this propagation of knowledge is always error-prone and imperfect so that the knowledge content might be lost or distorted during the learning process." http://www.eva.mpg.de/documents/IEEE/Lall%C3%A9e_Towards_IEEETrans_2012_1569280.pdf View in LinkedIn

ROACHBOTS. "The other thing to reiterate is how simple and cheap these roachbots are, and if you can use a bunch of them to mimic (or even improve upon) the functionality of larger and more expensive robots, you could save a lot of time and resources by relying on them instead." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

ROBOT SWARMS. "We’ve been fans of heterogeneous robot swarms for a long time, and it’s very cool to think about how teams of VelociRoACH robots might be able to work with teams of quadrotors like this." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

"THE TETHER-ASSISTED climbing mode fills in the last piece of the step climbing strategy— instead of just sending one member of the team up the step after climbing while connected, the winch can be used to pull the other team member up the step as well." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

MODULAR ADVANTAGES. "The cooperating robots benefit from distributed actuation of modular robots to climb steps, while being able to break the modular robot up when it is too cumbersome to drag the connected robots up the step." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

SCALING. "Planning under uncertainty faces a scalability problem when considering multi-robot teams, as the information space scales exponentially with the number of robots." https://lnkd.in/djgRXCW View in LinkedIn

COOPERATIVE ROBOTS. "I think there is some more interesting work in exploring how far two-robot cooperation can go." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

COOPERATIVE INSECTS. "In a world full of things that are much, much bigger than they are, insects manage to do pretty well with getting around. Some of the most successful insects are the social and cooperative ones, like ants, which can do incredible things such as using their bodies to create structures to get themselves across rivers." http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/robot-roaches-with-tiny-magnetic-winch-cooperate-to-scale-steps View in LinkedIn

"THE TWO EXCEPTIONS to the observation that major energy metabolic pathways are constrained are the calvin cycle and photosynthesis pathways. These pathways showed significant genetic constraint but no statistical support for developmental constraints most likely due to the difference in photosynthetic capacity between roots and shoots." http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001838 View in LinkedIn

ADAPTIVE AND EMERGENT. "The distinguishing feature of biomorphs is the use of simple non-linear elements stringed together to realise a control system that is highly adaptive and robust. They also exhibit adaptive, emergent behaviour and competent strategies normally impossible to replicate using conventional digital methods." http://vadakkepat.com/web/content/view/70/152/ View in LinkedIn