Robot swarms are systems composed of many simple robots that coordinate without central control. Soon, they could be ...

Engineers at Cornell University have developed a robotic system that behaves more like a ...

An enormous canyon stretches across Mars: Valles Marineris is 3,000 kilometers long, 600 kilometers wide and on average 8 kilometers deep. Its Latin name goes back to the Mars orbiter Mariner, which ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to collaborate with groups of robots to create visual art inspired by music. The platform combines swarm robotics, ...

Swarm robotics is an interdisciplinary field that studies how large numbers of relatively simple robots can coordinate their actions through local interactions to achieve collective goals. Drawing on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bees, ants, and termites build complex structures without blueprints, architects, or construction supervisors. Their colonies ...

For most of us, a locust swarm sounds like an utter nightmare. For roboticists, it’s inspiration. Nature abounds with creatures that cooperate with a “hive mind.” From bees gathering pollen to schools ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

The origins of swarm robotics lie in explorations of principles of self-organization and collective decision-making. The early 2000s marked the transition of swarm robotics from theory to practice as ...