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.^[1][2][3]

Symbrion
Commercial?	No
Type of project	Swarm robotics
Location	European Union
Owner	Funded by the European Commission
Established	2008 (2008)
Closed	2013 (2013)
Status	Closed

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.^[4] A large part of the developments within Symbrion is open-source and open-hardware.^[5]

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

See also

• Swarm robotics