Summary of "Cracking the Egg: Virtual Embryogenesis of Real Robots"
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INTRODUCTION: Growing a robot from a single functional unit, in other words a cell, is one of the most exciting dreams for researchers in the modular robotics field. Recent works have allowed the development of bigger and more complex robots. Usually based on spheric or cubic units, they embed complex mechatronics that make them more accurate, more efficient and more diversified [6, 8, 1]. Some of these robots have a fixed morphology with an evolved controller and other, more complex, are self-reconfiguring robots. This last method generates a very interesting property: the robots are capable of self-healing, as multicellular organisms are.
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