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Mondada, F., Floreano, D. (1996). Evolution and mobile autonomous robotics. In: Sanchez, E., Tomassini, M. (eds) Towards Evolvable Hardware. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61093-6_10

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