Friday, October 20, 2006

Swarm bots!

Ever since I read Michael Crichton's novel "Prey" about nanobot swarms four years ago, I've been fascinated by the idea that programmed 'agents' can work together and build collective intelligence just like the amazing termite colonies. I even wanted to do my NUS honors year project on swarm simulations! I ended up switching to real-time simulation of dynamic clouds, but look at what these guys managed to do with their cute little bots! It's amazing. :)



The robots were developed by Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, along with colleagues at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Dalle Molle Institute for the Study of Artificial Intelligence, both in Switzerland.

Check out the full NewScientist story here.

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