Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate

Quanta Magazine  February 14, 2018
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are experimenting with flapping robots called “smarticles” which can’t move on their own. But when a lot of these objects are put together they start to work as a unit. Researchers are learning how to control these systems so that when the swarm comes together, its members can carry out complex behaviors without any centralized direction. Other efforts in the field of self-organizing robots include “droplet-size robots” being developed at the University of Colorado, “Kilobot swarms” at Harvard University, and “swarmanoids” out of a pioneering lab in Belgium… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE