Simplicity may be key to robotic self-reproduction

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Sequences from the engineers hand-designed robotic self-reproduction. New Molecubes are deposited from the top and each cube has the ability to swivel. Image credit: Zykov et al. IEEE 2007.
Sequences from the engineers’ hand-designed robotic self-reproduction. New Molecubes are deposited from the top, and each cube has the ability to swivel. Image credit: Zykov, et al. ©IEEE 2007.

“Self-reproduction is one of the remarkable feats of biological systems which has remained largely outside the scope of capabilities of traditional engineered systems,” explains Victor Zykov and his colleagues from Cornell University in a recent study in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.


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