Steps towards living machines

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

Volumn 2217, Issue , 2001, Pages 72-93

  Brooks, Rodney A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM; EVOLVING SYSTEMS; LIVING MACHINES; LIVING SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SOURCES OF ENERGY; STANDARD MATERIALS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84945946743     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45502-7_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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