Month: September 2022

CHEATING FLOCKS. "His competitors were building their own mechanical flocks but Vicsek says that most of the reported successes have cheated in critical ways. Some, for example, could only fly indoors. Others communicated with a central supercomputer that did all their processing for them and gave them precise flight commands." http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/27/a-bird-like-flock-of-autonomous-drones/ View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. "Vicsek’s drones are free in their movements. Tell them to form a rotating ring, or a straight line, and they’ll coordinate themselves into the right position. Tell them that they’re heading towards an imaginary alleyway, and they’ll queue up to squeeze through a gap." http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/27/a-bird-like-flock-of-autonomous-drones/ View in LinkedIn

COMMUNICATION. "A peculiar feature of the Swarm-bot is that s-bots can exploit rich connection devices to self-assemble into various configurations, help each other, perform collective transportation, and even communicate to each other. This feature, which is exploited by several social insects, provides an additional dimension to collective robotics where interactions among robots are often virtual or take place through pushing actions." https://lnkd.in/dtgsM9s View in LinkedIn

WHEN ROBOTS COLLUDE: "Computers are adopting a legally questionable means to crush the competition. Algorithms can learn to collude." http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4 View in LinkedIn

FINE LINE COOPERATION. "Computers can't have a back-room conversation to fix prices, but they can predict the way that other computers are going to behave. And with that information, they can effectively cooperate with each other in advancing their own profit-maximizing interests." http://www.businessinsider.com/robots-colluding-to-manipulate-markets-2015-4 View in LinkedIn

HORIZONTAL COLLUSION. "When bots collude. Uber’s algorithm can lead to horizontal collusion if the algorithm gives rise to an “alternative universe” that pushes up prices based on the perceived market value of a ride, rather than its actual market value. A human need not be involved." https://lnkd.in/dNpdkZa View in LinkedIn

CHEATING POKER BOTS. "CasinoRobots.com today announced Poker Robot Collusion Edition for Microsoft Windows, an intelligent software robot capable of consistently winning games of Texas Hold'Em Poker at popular online Poker Rooms." http://CasinoRobots.com View in LinkedIn

DISOBEDIENT BOTS. "Uh oh! Robots are learning to disobey humans: Humanoid machine says no to instructions if it thinks it might be hurt." https://lnkd.in/dBdPJkh View in LinkedIn

DAMAGE ADAPTATION. "Robots learn to adapt to damage the way animals do. One six-legged walking robot ranked 13,000 styles of walking based on their effectiveness. Once damaged, the robot was able to begin testing the walking styles it predicted to be most effective, slowly ruling out options until it arrived at the best choice. The team was able to get their six-legged robot to walk well again in only a few minutes after two of its six legs were broken." https://lnkd.in/dkDqfpK View in LinkedIn