Adamatzky A., Komosinski M. (eds.) Artificial Life Models in Hardware

New York: Springer, 2009. — 280 p.Hopping, climbing and swimming robots, nano-size neural networks, motorless walkers, slime mould and chemical brains --- this book offers unique designs and prototypes of life-like creatures in conventional hardware and hybrid bio-silicon systems. Ideas and implementations of living phenomena in non-living substrates cast a colourful picture of state-of-the-art advances in hardware models of artificial life.
Focusing on topics and areas based on non-traditional thinking, and new and emerging paradigms in bio-inspired robotics, this book has a unifying theme: the design and real-world implementation of artificial life robotic devices.
Students and researchers will find this coverage of topics such as robotic energy autonomy, multi-locomotion of robots, biologically inspired autonomous robots, evolution in colonies of robotic insects, neuromorphic analog devices, self-configurable robots, and chemical and biological controllers for robots, will considerably enhance their understanding of the issues involved in the development of not-traditional hardware systems at the cusp of artificial life and robotics.The History and Future of Stiquito: A Hexapod Insectoid Robot.
Learning Legged Locomotion.
Salamandra Robotica : A Biologically Inspired Amphibious Robot that Swims and Walks.
Multilocomotion Robot: Novel Concept, Mechanism, and Control of Bio-inspired Robot.
Self-regulatory Hardware: Evolutionary Design for Mechanical Passivity on a Pseudo Passive Dynamic Walker.
Perception for Action in Roving Robots: A Dynamical System Approach.
Nature-inspired Single-electron Computers.
Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots.
Artificial Symbiosis in EcoBots.
The Phi-Bot: A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould.
Reaction–Diffusion Controllers for Robots.