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Embryomorphic Engineering: Emergent innovation through evolutionary development Doursat, René Sánchez-Quintana, Carlos Alberto Dordea, Razvan Fourquet, David Kowaliw, Taras Morfogénesis Embryomorphic Engineering, a particular instance of Morpho-genetic Engineering, takes its inspiration directly from biological development to create new hardware, software or network architectures by decentralized self-assembly of elementary agents. At its core, it combines three key principles of multicellular embryogenesis: chemical gradient di usion (providing positional information to the agents), gene regulatory networks (triggering their diferentiation into types, thus patterning), and cell division (creating structural constraints, thus reshaping). This chapter illustrates the potential of Embryomorphic Engineering in di erent spaces: 2D/3D physical swarms, which can nd applications in collective robotics, synthetic biology or nan- otechnology; and nD graph topologies, which can nd applications in dis- tributed software and peer-to-peer techno-social networks. In all cases, the speci c genotype shared by all the agents makes the phenotype's complex architecture and function modular, programmable and reproducible. 2014-01-07T12:06:32Z 2014-01-07T12:06:32Z 2014-01-07 journal article http://hdl.handle.net/10630/6846 eng open access