Swarm behavior is a phenomenon observed in nature where flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of insects exhibit coordinated movement. Each entity interacts with its surroundings and other ...

My colleagues and I have built a robot composed of many building blocks like the cells of a multicellular organism. Without a “brain” or a central controller in the system, our robot, dubbed Loopy, ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a ...

APL and Microsoft recently demonstrated an AI agent that can coordinate heterogeneous robot teams using large language models ...

China’s economic planning agency has warned that the overwhelming production of highly similar humanoid robots may collapse ...

Harvard researchers have turned the nightmarish behavior of California blackworms into the foundation for a new kind of robotic swarm system. A team led by Justin Werfel at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...

Five to six years ago, blockchain technology emerged as a bona fide option for capabilities outside of traditional digital cryptocurrency applications that it was known for, like Bitcoin. Experts at ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Lab faculty, staff and students engage in a range of advanced research and development activities. The vast majority of the Lab’s work involves the development of novel robotic control strategies and ...

KASSEL, Germany & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SWARM Biotactics, developer of bio-robotic systems based on fully controllable living insects for mission-critical operations, has secured €10 million ...