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SELF-REPAIRING ROBOTS. "Beyond conventional actuation, sensing and control typically found in fixed-morphology robots, self-reconfiguring robots are also able to deliberately change their own shape by rearranging the connectivity of their parts, in order to adapt to new circumstances, perform new tasks, or recover from damage." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

NANO-BIOMIMICRY RELIES ON NON-COVALENT BONDS. "The precise programming of these recognition events, and hence the correct assembly of the growing superstructure, relies on a fundamental understanding and the practical exploitation of non-covalent bonding interactions between and within molecules." https://lnkd.in/dkPudC4 View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS. "Modular self-reconfiguring robotic systems or self-reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology." Wrap your mind around that one. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

NANO-BIOMIMICRY. "Significant progress can be made in the development of nanoscience by transferring concepts found in the biological world into the chemical arena. Central to this mission is the development of simple chemical systems capable of instructing their own organization into large aggregates of molecules through their mutual recognition properties." https://lnkd.in/dkPudC4 View in LinkedIn

UNEXPECTED LEAP FORWARD. "The demonstration came as a great surprise to researchers in the field of DNA nanotechnology: the structures had formed from about 1000 different types of DNA brick, yet the general expectation was that large numbers of component types would be unable to assemble in an error-free way." https://lnkd.in/dE73DV6 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY. "The formation of molecular crystals, colloids, lipid bilayers, phase-separated polymers, and self-assembled monolayers are all examples of molecular self-assembly. Although self-assembly originated in the study of molecules, it is a strategy that is, in principle, applicable at all size scales." https://lnkd.in/dyqXZ8k View in LinkedIn

DNA BRICKS. "In 2012, researchers demonstrated that synthetic DNA strands called “DNA bricks” could self-assemble into complicated three-dimensional equilibrium structures, including letters of the English alphabet and shapes with well-defined cavities and tunnels." https://lnkd.in/dE73DV6 View in LinkedIn

EDITING ERRORS. "Instead of trying to avoid defects or work around them, it makes more sense to accept defects as part of the process and then correct them during and after the assembly process. This procedure is analogous to how nature deals with defects, and can be applied to the assembly of nanomaterials using biomolecules or biomimetic compounds." https://lnkd.in/dR5Ajf2 View in LinkedIn

ACTIVATORS AND REPRESSORS. "Biological regulation systems convert input signals into specified outputs. The same input–output relationship can generally be carried out by several different mechanisms." http://www.pnas.org/content/103/11/3999.full View in LinkedIn

ERROR MINIMIZATION IN BIOLOGY. "Savageau demand rule: Genes that are needed often in the natural environment tend to be regulated by activators, and rarely needed genes tend to be regulated by repressors; in both cases, sites are bound for most of the time, and errors are minimized. The fitness advantage of error minimization appears to be readily selectable." http://www.pnas.org/content/103/11/3999.full View in LinkedIn