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A Basis for Self-Repair Robots Using Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Modules Robert Fitch Daniela Rus Marsette Vona Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science A.I. Lab Dartmouth, USA Dartmouth, USA MIT, USA Abstract. Self-repair robots are modular robots that have the ca- pability of detecting and recovering from failures. Typically, such robots are unit-modular and carry a number of redundant modules on their bodies. Self-repair consists of detecting the failure of a module, ejecting the bad module and replacing it with one of the extra modules. In this paper we show how self-repair can b