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Embryonics: electronic stem cells

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Gianluca Tempesti,

André StaufferAuthors Info & Claims

ICAL 2003: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life

Pages 101 - 105

Published: 09 December 2002 Publication History

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Embryonics is a long-term research project attempting to draw inspiration from the biological process of ontogeny, to implement novel digital computing machines endowed with better fault-tolerant capabilities. This article discusses the degree of bio-inspiration attained while also attempting to start a similarity debate on various implementation decisions, on why and how nature developed its subtle, intricated means of growing, healing and reproducing.

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ICAL 2003: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life

December 2002

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