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Fig. 5

From: Mergeable nervous systems for robots

Fig. 5

An MNS robot self-heals after its brain unit develops a fault. Photos are snapshots from an experiment (Supplementary Movie 4). a A fault is injected in the brain unit. Using a heartbeat protocol (see Methods section), the three robotic units attached to the brain unit detect the fault. b All robotic units attached to the faulty brain unit detach. Each of these units now becomes the brain unit of a new MNS robot. c, d The three new MNS robots merge to recreate a single composite MNS robot with a single brain unit

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