FIG. 5.

Emergent behavior across circuit sensitivity design space. Simulated activation time as a function of the chemotaxis response (migration bias) and RBS strength (circuit sensitivity) for Bacteria (a), BacteriaBots (b), and NanoBEADS (c) without growth (i), at half the experimentally measured growth rates (ii), and at the experimentally measured growth rates (iii). Representative distributions of agents (and free bacteria resulting from growth) at various migration bias after ∼100 min of simulation are shown for each agent type. Black shaded regions in (a-i) and (c-i) indicate zones where the agents reached a steady non-activated state.