1,000 robots gather for flash mob
The first 1,000-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University.
Harvard University scientists have devised a swarm of 1,024 tiny robots that can work together without any assistance from humans. Like a robotic flash mob, these robots can assemble themselves into five-pointed stars, letters of the alphabet and other complex designs.
Just as trillions of individual cells can assemble into an intelligent organism, the Kilobots demonstrate how complexity can arise from very simple behaviors performed en masse. To computer scientists, they also represent a significant milestone in the development of collective artificial intelligence (AI).
The beauty of biological systems is that they are elegantly simple and yet, in large numbers, accomplish the seemingly impossible, says Radhika Nagpal, the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. At some level, you no longer even see the individuals; you just see the collective as an entity to itself.
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