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INSECT SWARM INTELLIGENCE. "(1) Individuals of the same species cooperate in the care for the young ones; (2) individuals share the reproductive division of labor, sterile individuals work for the benefit of fertile individuals; (3) an overlap of at least two generations exists, so that the offspring can help parents to carry out the tasks necessary to the life of the colony." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this section on the subject of the evolution of complexity. The story of enzymes was informative: culturally we have an image of an enzymes as exquisitely tailored to a very specific function, a frozen perfection of evolution; but in fact they are simply just molecules in a great tide of evolution whose forms are full of maladaptations, imprecisions, and transient forms. Great swaths of their history has been lost to the disinterested and restless actions of evolution that has obliterated 99% of her experiments. 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

"FLYNET (Micro and Nano Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civilian Use) aims at discovering novel methods to turn micro and nano aerial vehicle (MAV and NAV) systems for civilian use into a reality by targeting the unsolved original topic of multi-hop aerial networking in fleets." https://lnkd.in/eJVn6x4 View in LinkedIn

MIXED SWARMS. Heterogeneous multi-agent mixed swarms of bots, humans and dogs "working in cooperation to solve distributed tasks that require a wide diversity of sensory-motor and cognitive skills." Each component has a high level of autonomy but cooperate synergistically. http://www.swarmix.org/ View in LinkedIn

UNDIRECTED. "Every Kilobot runs on the same program. The team only has to give them a shape and nominate four of them as seeds. Once that’s done, the rest slowly pour into the right pattern, in an endearingly life-like way. It takes them around 12 hours, but they do it all without any human intervention." https://lnkd.in/d8fvb_E View in LinkedIn

FUTURE EMERGING. "This is a staggering work,” adds Iain Couzin, who studies collective animal behaviour at Princeton University. “It offers a vision of the future where robot groups could form structures on demand as, for example, in search-and-rescue in dangerous environments, or even the formation of miniature swarms within the body to detect and treat disease.” https://lnkd.in/d8fvb_E View in LinkedIn