BBC News: Rise of the machines! Engineers in the US have built a swarm of 1,000 little robots that can shuffle into specific formations on command. Continue reading the main story robot swarm Each of the identical robots is given a picture of the required shape, and then they work together to make it happen. It takes up to 12 hours, but then this is the biggest throng of robots ever built and studied in this way. Inspired by biological examples, like cells forming organs or ants building bridges, the work could help develop self-assembling tools and structures. Each robot is identical and we give them all the exact same program, explained Dr Michael Rubenstein, the first author of the study, which is published in Science. The only thing they have to go on, to make decisions, is what their neighbours are doing. bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28739371
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:41:59 +0000
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