The project aims to produce open source swarm robots that are fully autonomous with programmable and natural emergent behavior in a 20x28x15mm size only. A swarm of miniature robots has been built and ...

Taking inspiration from nature, a team of scientists from Princeton University and Northwestern University is building a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that could one day lead to buildings with ...

From flocks of birds to fish schools in the sea, or towering termite mounds, many social groups in nature exist together to survive and thrive. This cooperative behaviour can be used by engineers as ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Kilobots were designed to mimic the behavior of a swarm of bees, colony of army ants, or flock of ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to ...

Researchers have unveiled the Swarm Garden, a breakthrough in “living” architecture. By linking dozens of tiny, flower-like robots into a communicating swarm, they’ve created a surface that behaves ...