Symbrion

Symbrion

Symbrion (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms) is a project funded by European Commissions to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum.

One of the key-aspects of Symbrion is inspired by the biological world: an artificial genome that allows to store and evolve (sub)optimal configurations in order to achieve an increased speed of adaptation.

The SYMBRION project does not start from zero, previous development and research from project I-SWARM and the open-source SWARMROBOT projects serve as a mounting point. A large part of the developments within Symbrion is open-source and open-hardware.

Co-operating universities

Universität Stuttgart, Germany (Coordination)

Universität Graz, Austria

Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

University of York, UK

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France

External links

* [http://www.symbrion.eu Symbrion homepage]


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