Just a few months after kick-off, the swarm of researchers involved in this FP7-funded project is certainly self-organizing into a unified and powerful research organ. Its goal is to develop a theoretical framework for the distributed adaptive control of relatively simple agents, based on gene regulatory networks. Reaching this degree of integration relatively early in the project has been due to ...

"James Sharpe explains how computer science and biology are going to change the way we build things and therefore the kind of things we can build. He predicts that once we eliminate the separation between the doers, thinkers and the object we are building, human technology will cease to be fragile." [video]