Robotics researchers increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can
strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms have evolved to …

This article presents a review on trends in modular reconfigurable robots, comparing the
evolution of the features of the most significant robots over the years and focusing on the …

All living systems perpetuate themselves via growth in or on the body, followed by splitting,
budding, or birth. We find that synthetic multicellular assemblies can also replicate …

Biological organisms achieve robust high-level behaviours by combining and coordinating
stochastic low-level components,–. By contrast, most current robotic systems comprise either …

Shape-morphing capabilities are crucial for enabling multifunctionality in both biological and
artificial systems. Various strategies for shape morphing have been proposed for …

The structural complexity of metamaterials is limitless, but, in practice, most designs
comprise periodic architectures that lead to materials with spatially homogeneous …

Multi-step pathways—which consist of a sequence of reconfigurations of a structure—are
central to the functionality of various natural and artificial systems. Such pathways execute …

This study emphasizes the need for standardized measurement tools for human robot
interaction (HRI). If we are to make progress in this field then we must be able to compare …

Praise for the first edition:… superb, beautifully written and organized work that takes an
engineering approach to systems biology. Alon provides nicely written appendices to …

Nanoscale industrial robots have potential as manufacturing platforms and are capable of
automatically performing repetitive tasks to handle and produce nanomaterials with …