Symbrion

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

 * Universität Stuttgart, Germany (Coordination)
 * Universität Graz, Austria
 * Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
 * Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
 * Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium
 * University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
 * Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
 * University of York, UK
 * Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
 * Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France
 * Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic