Wednesday, September 2, 2009

I-SWARM Micro Robots

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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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  • Travis_D
    There are some cool videos of these robots over on Hizook.com -- http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/29/i-swarm-m...
  • blairf_felgenheimer
    Besides getting stuck in Seth Brundlefly's back what can they do?
  • dponce80
    Lol. Well Blairf, this is one of our posts promoting BotJunkie, so
    you're free to find that out... at BotJunkie. ;)
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