Friday, 15 August 2014

Programmable Self-Assembly In A Thousand-Robot Swarm

Collectives in nature can have millions of individuals that cooperate to form complex structures. Creating these abilities in artificial systems remains a significant challenge.

Scienrists at the Harvard Scool of Engineering developed a simple low-cost robot called 'Kilobot' which allowed them to produce a 1024-robot swarm for testing collective behaviors.

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