The dry history of liquid computers

2018/11/25 by Andrew Adamatzky, Adamatzky, Andrew · 3 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.09989

Abstract

A liquid can be used to represent signals, actuate mechanical computing devices and to modify signals via chemical reactions. We give a brief overview of liquid based computing devices developed over hundreds of years. These include hydraulic calculators, fluidic computers, micro-fluidic devices, droplets, liquid marbles and reaction-diffusion chemical computers.

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