linkedin post 2019-09-03 05:35:04
SWARM BOTS "are also highly adaptive to changes in the environment, and show good scalability to increased problem and/or swarm size." https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-03 05:34:03
"SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS typically exhibit interesting properties such as high degrees of parallelism, redundancy, and robustness." https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-05 05:47:34
RECORD BREAKING. "Scientists have tried to make artificial swarms with similar abilities, but building and programming them is expensive and difficult. Most of these robot herds consist of a few dozen units, and only a few include more than a hundred. The Kilobots smash that record." https://lnkd.in/d8fvb_E View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-05 05:44:07
THE KILOBOTS "were inspired by natural swarms, where simple and limited units can cooperate to do great things. Thousands of fire ants can unite into living bridges, rafts and buildings. Billions of unthinking neurons can create the human brain. Trillions of cells can fashion a tree or a tyrannosaur." Remarkable video. https://lnkd.in/d8fvb_E View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-04 06:01:39
BOT EVOLUTION. "After 500 generations researchers saw the generalist strategy begin to emerge: navigate toward light, pick up block, navigate away from light, drop block, repeat. After a thousand generations task partitioning begins to emerge and the cooperative behavior is optimized and refined over an additional thousand generations." http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/antlike-robots-might-help-explain-origins-cooperation View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-04 05:58:47
GENETIC PROGRAMMING of virtual ant bots over 2,000 generations starts to closely mimic the efficiency of leaf-cutter ants. "The robots used in this study could exhibit only very simple behaviors: They could move to and from a light source placed above the blocks, move about randomly, or pick up or drop an object. Within this framework, each robot could be programmed to mimic the roles of the leafcutters." https://lnkd.in/dy24Vex View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2019-09-04 05:57:15
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
linkedin post 2019-09-04 05:54:46
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
linkedin post 2019-09-06 04:00:36
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
linkedin post 2019-09-04 05:52:19
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