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SWARM ROBOTICS. "The main characteristics of a swarm robotics are summarized: simplicity of robots, fully distributed system, scalability, robustness." They also include parallelism, robustness, scalability, heterogeneity, flexibility, complex tasks, and cost effectiveness. https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

SIMILAR RULES? "When food items were clustered, groups where robots could recruit other robots in an ant-like manner were more efficient than groups without information transfer, suggesting that group dynamics of swarms of robots may follow rules similar to those governing social insects." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6799/full/406992a0.html View in LinkedIn

NANOSPIDERS. "One of them has four legs and marches over its DNA landscape, turning and stopping with no controls from its human creators. The other has four legs and three arms – it walks along a miniature assembly line, picking up three pieces of cargo from loading machines (also made of DNA) and attaching them to itself." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn

SWARM SIZE AND EFFICIENCY. "Groups of robots using ant-inspired algorithms of decentralized control techniques foraged more efficiently and maintained higher levels of group energy than single robots. But the benefits of group living decreased in larger groups, most probably because of interference during foraging. Intriguingly, a similar relationship between group size and efficiency has been documented in social insects." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6799/full/406992a0.html View in LinkedIn

NANOSPIDERS MADE OF DNA. "Two spiders are walking along a track – a seemingly ordinary scene, but these are no ordinary spiders. They are molecular robots and they, like the tracks they stride over, are fashioned from DNA." http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn

KEYS TO ANT SUCCESS. "Efficient mechanisms of division of labour, in particular series–parallel operation and transfer of information among group members, are key components of the tremendous ecological success of ants." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6799/full/406992a0.html View in LinkedIn

COORDINATION OF ROBOTS. Another very compelling video. https://lnkd.in/eqc4xPm View in LinkedIn

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS. "One of the greatest challenges in robotics is to create machines that are able to interact with unpredictable environments in real time. A possible solution may be to use swarms of robots behaving in a self-organized manner, similar to workers in an ant colony." https://lnkd.in/dEdzdnt View in LinkedIn

SWARMANOID PROJECT. A grippingly chilling and exciting video of cooperative bots seeking and retrieving an object. A must-watch video. Stunning. https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE SWARM INTELLIGENCE. “Like fire ants, when they get to a body of water, they wouldn’t have to be fed the image of a bridge; they would just self-assemble into one. “That’s a whole other level of intelligence, and it’s not really understood how to do that in robotics...But nature does it well".” http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/14/a-swarm-of-a-thousand-cooperative-self-organising-robots/ View in LinkedIn