Couple of reference links
November 15th, 2005
BEAM Robotics
BEAM is alternatively said to stand for: Building Evolution Anarchy Modularity Biotechnology Ethnology Analogy Morphology.
Most BEAM robots are unusually simple in design compared to traditional mobile robots, and trade off flexibility in purpose for robustness of performance.
BEAM style robots are coming from behavior-based robotics approach.
The school of behavior-based robots owes much to [...]