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The Growing Field of Genetic Robotics

A genobot is a robot that is designed to learn and adapt to environmental changes based on the biological principles of variation, recombination, and selection. In biological organisms, the elements that are varied, recombined, and selected are genes. In genetic robotics, the elements that are varied, recombined, and selected are sections of software and/or hardware. Genobots' education and control functions are founded on life science computing subsets (such DNA computing chips), Genetic Algorithms (GAs) that imitate biologic evolutionary processes, or both. Genobots do not yet exist, but there is speedy progress in the discipline of life science computing. Biological computing allows extensive parallel processing and will facilitate adaptive neural networks. This may enable genobots to function in multi-faceted and changing environments in which standard robots would fail. Inorganic data processors and biological brains share some attributes in common. For example, both use energy to operate. Neurons in the brain send electrochemical signals along dendrites and axons to communicate from one cell to another. Computers send electrical signals through wires to communicate from one electronic part to another. However, there are significant differences even with respect to energy transfer. In neurons, the control of ion flow through voltage-gated channels is revised by the cell membrane charge differential. This is in contrast to the dynamics of computers subsets such as transistors. Genelogics is the use of genetic computing science and genetic engineering techniques to the identification of particular susceptibility to specific diseases and responses to specific metabolic agents. The potential of DNA to make or inhibit production of specific proteins is used to encode big amounts of information in a relatively tiny space, work parallel processing, and solve intricate computational problems. DNA micro-scale materials are attached to surfaces in a high-density manner that preserves their accessibility to solution, allowing the formation of hydrogen-bonded duplex patterns. MediChips are implantable equipment that interface and transfer information between life science and calculator systems. In some respects, we have already begun going down the path in the direction of medichips with implantable healing machines, such as pacemakers, with wireless messaging capability and web connectivity. As the evolution of these biomedical hardware converges with technological developments in wireless network equipment such as cell phones, medichips will mature. Click on images to learn more about biotech/neurotech T-shirts: Questions and suggestions concerning the site Genobot.com may be sent to: Genobot.com © 2006 by Genobot.com