Symbrion (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms) is a project funded by the European Commission between 2008 and 2013 to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum.

One of the key aspects of Symbrion is inspired by the biological world: an artificial genome that allows storing and evolution of suboptimal configurations in order to increase the speed of adaptation.

The SYMBRION project does not start from zero; previous development and research from projects I-SWARM and the open-source SWARMROBOT serve as a mounting point. A large part of the developments within Symbrion is open-source and open-hardware.

Co-operating universities

• University of Stuttgart, Germany (Coordination)

• University of Graz, Austria

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

• University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

• Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium

• University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

• University of Tübingen, Germany

• University of York, UK

• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

• National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France

• Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

See also

• Swarm robotics

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