FIG. 6.

Robustness of emergent behavior across circuit sensitivity and migration bias design space. The standard deviation in simulated activation time as a function of the chemotaxis response (migration bias) and RBS strength (circuit sensitivity) for the free-swimming bacteria (a), BacteriaBots (b), and NanoBEADS (c) in the absence of growth (i), at half the experimentally measured growth rates (ii), and the experimentally measured growth rates (iii). Black shaded regions indicate zones where the agents reached a steady non-activated state.