Editing BEAM robotics (section)

==Publications==

'''Patents'''
* {{US patent|613809}} - ''Method of and Apparatus for Controlling Mechanism of Moving Vehicle or Vehicles'' - Tesla's "[[telautomaton]]" patent{{fact|date=September 2023}}; First [[logic gate]].
* {{US patent|5325031}} - ''Adaptive robotic nervous systems and control circuits therefor'' - Tilden's patent; A self-stabilizing control circuit using pulse delay circuits for controlling the limbs of a limbed robot, and a robot incorporating such a circuit; artificial "neurons".

'''Books and papers'''
* Conrad, James M., and Jonathan W. Mills, "''Stiquito: advanced experiments with a simple and inexpensive robot''", ''The future for nitinol-propelled walking robots'', Mark W. Tilden. Los Alamitos, Calif., [[IEEE Computer Society]] Press, c1998. LCCN 96029883 {{ISBN|0-8186-7408-3}}
* Tilden, Mark W., and [[Brosl Hasslacher]],  "''[http://www.solarbotics.net/library/pdflib/pdf/living_machines.pdf Living Machines]''". [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], [[Los Alamos, New Mexico|Los Alamos, NM]] 87545, USA.
* Tilden, Mark W. and [[Brosl Hasslacher]], "''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070108061615/http://downloads.solarbotics.net/pdf/living_biomech_machines.pdf The Design of "Living" Biomech Machines: How low can one go?"]''". Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
* Still, Susanne, and Mark W. Tilden, "''[http://www.solarbotics.net/library/pdflib/pdf/stirling97_still_tilden.pdf Controller for a four legged walking machine]''". ETH Zuerich, Institute of Neuroinformatics, and Biophysics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
* [[Valentino Braitenberg|Braitenberg, Valentino]], "''Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology''", 1984. {{ISBN|0-262-52112-1}}
* Rietman, Ed, "''Experiments In Artificial Neural Networks''", 1988. {{ISBN|0-8306-0237-2}}
* Tilden, Mark W., and [[Brosl Hasslacher]], "''Robotics and Autonomous Machines'': ''The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents''", LANL Paper ID: LA-UR-94-2636, Spring 1995.
* Dewdney, A.K. "''Photovores: Intelligent Robots are Constructed From Castoffs''". [[Scientific American]] Sept 1992, v267, n3, p42(1)
* Smit, Michael C., and Mark Tilden, "''Beam Robotics''". Algorithm, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 1991, Pg 15–19.
* Hrynkiw, David M., and Tilden, Mark W., "''Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels''", 2002. {{ISBN|0-07-222601-3}} ([http://junkbots.solarbotics.com Book support website])