Robotic Enzyme-Based Autonomous Self-Replication
Michael Rubenstein, Maks Krivokon, and Wei-Min Shen. Robotic Enzyme-Based Autonomous Self-Replication. In Proc. 2004 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2661–2666, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
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Abstract
In this paper, we introduce and describe the notion of a robotic enzyme, and how it can use properties that are similar to biological enzymes to autonomously self-replicate. We test the idea of robotic enzymes using a virtual environment that simulates the currently existing modular robots in a physically accurate way. We describe the self-replicating features of robotic enzymes, and how they could be used to autonomously self-replicate for multiple generations, limited only by the amount of modules in the environment.
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@InProceedings{ rubenstein2004robotic-enzyme-based-autonomous-self-replication, abstract = {In this paper, we introduce and describe the notion of a robotic enzyme, and how it can use properties that are similar to biological enzymes to autonomously self-replicate. We test the idea of robotic enzymes using a virtual environment that simulates the currently existing modular robots in a physically accurate way. We describe the self-replicating features of robotic enzymes, and how they could be used to autonomously self-replicate for multiple generations, limited only by the amount of modules in the environment.}, address = {Sendai, Japan}, author = {Michael Rubenstein and Maks Krivokon and Wei-Min Shen}, booktitle = iros-04, pages = {2661--2666}, title = {Robotic Enzyme-Based Autonomous Self-Replication}, year = {2004} }
