This article presents a review on trends in modular reconfigurable robots, comparing the
evolution of the features of the most significant robots over the years and focusing on the …

While expected applications of Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) span various workspaces,
scales, and structures, practical implementations of such systems lag behind their potentials …

Reconfigurable Computing marks a revolutionary and hot topic that bridges the gap
between the separate worlds of hardware and software design—the key feature of …

“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many
innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability …

Abstract Employing Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) in different application domains
confronts a large number of challenging problems in design, optimization, and planning, and …

Programmable matter represents a system of elements whose interactions can be
programmed for a certain behavior to emerge (eg, color, shape) upon suitable commands …

Adaptive locomotion in unstructured and unpredictable environments is one of the most
advertised features of modular robots in the literature. Autonomous modular robots are …

Simulation is one of the most important tools for robotics research, as it serves several
crucial purposes such as prototy**, learning, avoiding dispensable hardware costs, or …

In biological systems, individual phenotypes are typically adopted by multiple genotypes.
Examples include protein structure phenotypes, where each structure can be adopted by a …

Purpose–This paper aims to present a novel modular robot that provides a flexible
framework for exploring adaptive locomotion. Design/methodology/approach–A new …