I-SWARM Micro Robots
By Evan Ackerman
While most robot designers shoot for more capable and more complicated robots, the philosophy behind swarm robotics is totally different: make the robots as simple as possible, and let complex capabilities emerge from the cooperative powers of a whole bunch of them. We’re already familiar with macro-scale swarm robots, but researchers in Europe are trying to shrink things down to insect scale.
These tiny (4 millimeters on a side) robots are members of the I-SWARM project…
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