Collection of Videos of Self-Assembling SystemsRoderich Groß and Marco Dorigo
This website is intended to provide supplementary material of a paper that has been submitted to the Proceedings of the IEEE. The material comprises references to video recordings for the self-assembling systems that are discussed in the paper. Please do respect the copyright of the various authors with regard to any information presented and referred to on this page (e.g., via links to external websites). You are mostly welcome to contact Roderich Groß (rgross@ulb.ac.be) for any concerns, feedback, or questions. |
| Penrose's Template-Replicating Modules |
| L.S. Penrose, "Automatic mechanical self-replication," 16 mm Kodachrome movie film, Hemel Hempstead, Herts., England, filmed and distributed by H.A. Cresswell, 1958; 11 minutes. Cited in: Edward F. Moore, "Machine models of self-reproduction," Proc. Symp. Applied Math. 14(1962):17-33; and in Michael J. Apter, Cybernetics and Development, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1966; and in Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2004 |
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Lionel Penrose [wikipedia.org] Sir Roger Penrose [wikipedia.org] |
| Hosokawa et al.'s Self-Assembling Hexagons |
| Currently no video recording available. |
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Link to Shimoyama - Matsumoto Lab, University of Tokyo |
| Breivik's Template-Replicating Polymers |
| Currently no video recording available. |
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Link to Home Page of Jarle Breivik, University of Oslo |
| White et al.'s Self-Assembling Programmable Modules |
| Link to video recording |
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Link to project website Link to Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), Cornell University (Ithaca) |
| Griffith et al.'s Electromechanical Assemblers |
Link to video recording Link to video recording in supplementary information of "Robotics: Self-replication from random parts" Saul Griffith, Dan Goldwater and Joseph M. Jacobson. Nature 437, 636 (29 September 2005) |
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Link to project website Link to MIT Media Lab |
| White et al.'s Systems for Self-Assembly in 3-D | Link to video recording |
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Link to project website Link to Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), Cornell University (Ithaca) |
| Bishop et al.'s Self-Assembling Hexagons | Link to video recording |
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Link to project website Link to Eric Klavins' Group, University of Washington |
| Bhalla & Bentley's Self-Assembling Special Purpose Modules | Currently no video recording available. |
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| Link to Home Page of Navneet Bhalla |
| Reproductive Sequence Device (RSD) | Currently no video recording available. |
| Further Information | Homer Jacobson [wikipedia.org] |
| CEBOT Mark II/III/IV | Currently no video recording available. |
| Further Information | Link to Fukuda Lab, Nagoya University |
| PolyBot G2/G3 | Link to video recording |
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Link to PolyBot - Modular Robotics Project, PARC Link to Home Page of Mark Yim, University of Pennsylvania |
| CONRO | Link to video recording |
| Further Information | Link to Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory, USC |
| Super Mechano Colony (SMC) |
Link to video recording Link to second video recording |
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Link to COE-SMS project information, Yamakita Lab Link to Home Page of Roderich Groß, Free University of Brussels (ULB) |
| Bererton & Khosla's System for Cooperative Repair | Link to video recording |
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Link to Home Page of Curt Bererton Link to The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon |
| Swarm-Bot |
Link to video recordings |
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Link to Swarm-bots project, Free University of Brussels (ULB) |
| Molecubes |
Link to video recording |
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Link to project website Link to Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), Cornell University (Ithaca) |
| Modular Transformer (M-TRAN III) | Currently no video recording available. |
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Link to project website Link to Distributed Systems Design Research Group, AIST Link to Home Page of Satoshi Murata, Tokyo Tech (link currently broken!) |