Toward Energy Autonomy in Heterogeneous Modular Plant-Inspired Robots through Artificial Evolution

Veenstra, Frank; Metayer, Chloe; Risi, Sebastian; Støy, Kasper

doi:10.3389/frobt.2017.00043

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“…It is the sensorimotor system that defines the robot's embodiment and is influenced by its bodily morphology, specifically its sensor and motor configuration [80,81]. Although evolutionary robotics emphasises the importance of bodily morphology in cognition, it does not implement physical self-construction processes such as autopoiesis (though there have been limited attempts at generative construction, such as in Reference [82]). Here, we take the view that continual self-production defined as self-repair inherent in autopoiesis is a natural and trivial side-effect of self-reproduction capacity-logically, if a full copy of itself can be constructed, any self-repair is a mere subset of a full copy.…”

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How to Build a Biological Machine Using Engineering Materials and Methods

Ellery

2020

Biomimetics

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We present work in 3D printing electric motors from basic materials as the key to building a self-replicating machine to colonise the Moon. First, we explore the nature of the biological realm to ascertain its essence, particularly in relation to the origin of life when the inanimate became animate. We take an expansive view of this to ascertain parallels between the biological and the manufactured worlds. Life must have emerged from the available raw material on Earth and, similarly, a self-replicating machine must exploit and leverage the available resources on the Moon. We then examine these lessons to explore the construction of a self-replicating machine using a universal constructor. It is through the universal constructor that the actuator emerges as critical. We propose that 3D printing constitutes an analogue of the biological ribosome and that 3D printing may constitute a universal construction mechanism. Following a description of our progress in 3D printing motors, we suggest that this engineering effort can inform biology, that motors are a key facet of living organisms and illustrate the importance of motors in biology viewed from the perspective of engineering (in the Feynman spirit of “what I cannot create, I cannot understand”).

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Section: What Is Life?mentioning

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How to Build a Biological Machine Using Engineering Materials and Methods

Ellery

2020

Biomimetics

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Toward Energy Autonomy in Heterogeneous Modular Plant-Inspired Robots through Artificial Evolution

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How to Build a Biological Machine Using Engineering Materials and Methods

How to Build a Biological Machine Using Engineering Materials and Methods

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