Related Work

• Self-Assembly

  • Molecular or chemical self-assembly [Whitesides]
  • Self-assembly from mobile units [Yim, Fukuda]

• Existing programming approaches

  • Centralized or heuristic-based searches [Chirikjian, Yim]
  • Cellular automata, ant-based rules [Mataric]
  • Evolutionary approach [Mitchell]

• Amorphous Computing

  • Growing Point Language, other [Coore, Weiss, Nagpal]