Engineered communications for microbial robotics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2054, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-16

  Weiss, Ron ^a   Knight, Thomas F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENGINEERS;

AMORPHOUS COMPUTING; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; DIGITALLY CONTROLLED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND CONTROL; INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS; MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS; MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURE; PATTERNED STRUCTURE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84873668552     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44992-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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