Information processing in natural systems radically differs from current information technology. This difference is particularly apparent in the area of robotics, where both organisms and artificial devices face a similar challenge: the need to act in real time in a complex environment and to do so with computing resources severely limited by their size and power consumption. Biological systems...

Polysphondylium violaceum and Dictyostelium discoideum myxamoebae have simple double-layered nuclear membranes, a cytoplasmic reticulum of particle-covered membranes, and small mitochondria consisting of convoluted tubules tightly packed in double membranes. In addition to objects still recognisable as bacteria, their food vacuoles contain concentric (or spiral) membranes, apparently formed sec...

The Phychip project is a collaborative European research initiative to design and implement computation using the organism Physarum polycephalum; it is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by the European Commission within CORDIS and the FET Proactive scheme. Included in this abstract are details the development of a Physarum based biosensor and biological logic gate, offering signif...

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Lateral Inhibition (LI) phenomena occur in a wide range of sensory modalities and are most famously described in the human visual system. In LI the activity of a stimulated neuron is itself excited and suppresses the activity of its local neighbours via inhibitory connections, increasing the contrast between spatial environmental stimuli. Simple organisms, such as the single-celled slime mould ...