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Evolution of oil droplets in a chemorobotic platform.


ABSTRACT: Evolution, once the preserve of biology, has been widely emulated in software, while physically embodied systems that can evolve have been limited to electronic and robotic devices and have never been artificially implemented in populations of physically interacting chemical entities. Herein we present a liquid-handling robot built with the aim of investigating the properties of oil droplets as a function of composition via an automated evolutionary process. The robot makes the droplets by mixing four different compounds in different ratios and placing them in a Petri dish after which they are recorded using a camera and the behaviour of the droplets analysed using image recognition software to give a fitness value. In separate experiments, the fitness function discriminates based on movement, division and vibration over 21 cycles, giving successive fitness increases. Analysis and theoretical modelling of the data yields fitness landscapes analogous to the genotype-phenotype correlations found in biological evolution.

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4268700 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evolution of oil droplets in a chemorobotic platform.

Gutierrez Juan Manuel Parrilla JM   Hinkley Trevor T   Taylor James Ward JW   Yanev Kliment K   Cronin Leroy L  

Nature communications 20141208


Evolution, once the preserve of biology, has been widely emulated in software, while physically embodied systems that can evolve have been limited to electronic and robotic devices and have never been artificially implemented in populations of physically interacting chemical entities. Herein we present a liquid-handling robot built with the aim of investigating the properties of oil droplets as a function of composition via an automated evolutionary process. The robot makes the droplets by mixin  ...[more]

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