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Victor Zykov, Efstathios Mytilinaios, Bryant Adams, Hod Lipson, “Robotics: Self-reproducing machines,” Nature 435(12 May 2005):163-164. ------------- Specialized professional journals of possible relevance to kinematic self-replicating machines: Adaptive Behavior, http://www.adaptive-behavior.org/journal/; Advanced Robotics, http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-AdvRob.html; Advances in Complex Systems, http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/ACS/; Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=AIE; Artificial Life, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=41 or http://mitpress.mit.edu/ALIFE; Artificial Life and Robotics, http://arob.cc.oita-u.ac.jp/Alife/Journal.html; ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, http://ojps.aip.org/ASMEJournals/MechanicalDesign/; Assembly Automation, http://pippo.emeraldinsight.com/vl=11750982/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/aa.htm; Automated Software Engineering, http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0928-8910; Automatica, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/automatica or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/00051098; Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1387-2532; Autonomous Robots, http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0929-5593; BioSystems, http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/0/6/0/1/7/index.htt; Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, http://www.academicpress.com/bmb; Complexity, http://journals.wiley.com/complexity/; Complexity International, http://www.csu.edu.au/ci/; Complex Systems, http://www.complex-systems.com/; Cybernetics and Systems, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/01969722.html; Desktop Engineering Magazine, http://www.deskeng.com; Electronic Journal of Computational Kinematics, http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin//EJCK/EJCK.html; Engineering Computations: Intl. Journal for Computer-Aided Engineering and Software, http://pippo.emeraldinsight.com/vl=11750982/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/ec.htm; Evolution, http://lsvl.la.asu.edu/evolution/; Evolutionary Computation, http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=10636560; Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-2576 or http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1389-2576; Haptics-e: The Electronic Journal of Haptics Research, http://www.haptics-e.org/; IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, http://www.ieee-asme-mechatronics.org/; IEEE/ASME Transactions on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, http://www.trimmer.net/; IEEE Control Systems Magazine, http://www.htc.honeywell.com/projects/CSM/; IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/RAM/RAM.html; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, http://control.bu.edu/ieee/; IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/%7Egoldberg/t-ase/; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, http://tcst.elen.utah.edu/; IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, http://www.ewh.ieee.org/tc/nnc/pubs/tec/ or http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tec.html; IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/tnano.htm or http://www.ieee.org/transonnanotechnology; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, http://www.ncsu.edu/IEEE-RAS/TRA/TRA.html; Industrial Robot, http://lucia.emeraldinsight.com/vl=4420118/cl=36/nw=1/rpsv/ir.htm or http://pippo.emeraldinsight.com/vl=11750982/cl=29/nw=1/rpsv/ir.htm; Informatica, http://www.mii.lt/mii_inform/; Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Transactions, http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/trans_e.html or http://www.ipsj.or.jp; Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing, http://www.iospress.nl/site/html/10692509.html; Integrated Manufacturing Systems, http://giorgio.emeraldinsight.com/vl=2375813/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/ims.htm; InterJournal, http://www.interjournal.org; International Journal of Mechatronics, http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/inca/933; International Journal of Robotics Research, http://www.ijrr.org/ and http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=247; Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html; Journal of Automation and Information Sciences, http://www.begellhouse.com/journals/2b6239406278e43e.html; Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, http://www.aspbs.com/ctn/index.htm; Journal of Evolution and Technology, http://www.jetpress.org/index.html; Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0921-0296 and http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0921-0296; Journal of Mechanical Design, http://ojps.aip.org/ASMEJournals/MechanicalDesign/; Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems; Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, http://www.hfl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/jrm/; Journal of Micromechatronics, http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-JouMic.html; Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, http://www.aspbs.com/jnn/index.htm; Journal of Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, Belarus, http://www.j-npcs.org/; Journal of Robotic Systems, http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0741-2223/; Journal of Theoretical Biology, http://www.academicpress.com/jtb; Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/japan/www/rsj/rsj.html; Mechanism and Machine Theory, http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/3/0/3/; Mechatronics, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/mechatronics or http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/9/3/3/; Microsystem Technologies, http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00542/about.htm; Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, http://www.ac.by/publications/npcs/; Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena), http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/7/1/4/505714.pub.htt; Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=37; Progress in Complexity, Information and Design, http://www.iscid.org/pcid.php; Robotica, http://titles.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=ROB; Rapid Prototyping Journal, http://ceres.emeraldinsight.com/vl=7188318/cl=49/nw=1/rpsv/rpj.htm and http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/mcb/156 Robotics and Autonomous Systems, http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/robot and http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/6/2/2/; Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/rcim