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Volume 5, Issue 4, March 2019, Pages 265 - 268

A Turing Machine Constructed with Cubelets Robots

Authors
Ricardo Quezada Figueroa1, *, Daniel Ayala Zamorano1, Genaro Juárez Martínez1, 2, Andrew Adamatzky2
1Artificial Life Robotics Lab, Escuela Superior de Cómputo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México
2Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: qf7.ricardo@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Ricardo Quezada Figueroa
Received 16 October 2018, Accepted 4 December 2018, Available Online 30 March 2019.
DOI
10.2991/jrnal.k.190220.013How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Turing machine; robotics; cubelets; Lego; cellular automata
Abstract

We describe the design and implementation of a modular and distributed robot that physically simulates functioning of a 2-symbols Turing machine. The robot is constructed with Cubelets (small autonomous robot-cubes used for teaching basic robotics and programming for kids) and Lego® bricks (thus the robot is called CULET). The Cubelets robotic blocks allow for a high level programming: instead of a traditional code, the robots are programmed by assembling various elementary blocks of robots together. We illustrate how read and write operations are physically implemented by the CULET.

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Journal
Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
Volume-Issue
5 - 4
Pages
265 - 268
Publication Date
2019/03/30
ISSN (Online)
2352-6386
ISSN (Print)
2405-9021
DOI
10.2991/jrnal.k.190220.013How to use a DOI?
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© 2019 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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