These Tiny Robots Kilobots Are Shaping the Future… All By Themselves!

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The Quick and the Curious
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Kilobots are modeled after the hive mindset often seen in nature. These teeny robots can work together to accomplish huge goals.


About Kilobots

In nature, vast groups of individual elements can cooperate and assemble to create highly complex global behavior through local interactions — from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as army ants bivouacs and flocks of birds. In the field of robotics, researchers use inspiration from collective intelligence in nature to create artificial systems with capabilities observed in natural swarms. Researchers have designed tiny robots, inspired by ants, bees, and cells, envisioned to work together in large swarms or as programmable materials. Nevertheless, there still exists a substantial gap between the conceptual designs and the realized systems. Creating engineered systems with similar abilities poses challenges in the design of both algorithms and physical systems that can operate at such scales. There is a vast body of work on algorithms meant to control collectives of hundreds or even thousands of robots, however, for reasons of cost, time, or complexity, they are validated in simulation only, or on a group of a few 10s of robots.

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