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Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

Distributed Predictive Drone Swarms in Cluttered Environments

Measurement Scheduling for Cooperative Localization in Resource-Constrained Conditions

Lightweight physics-based models for the control of fluid-mediated self-assembly of robotic modules

Evo-Bots: A Simple, Stochastic Approach to Self-assembling Artificial Organisms

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Design and Calibration of a Lightweight Physics-Based Model for Fluid-Mediated Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

A reconfiguration strategy for modular robots using origami folding

Automatic synthesis of rulesets for programmable stochastic self-assembly of rotationally symmetric robotic modules

Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

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