Robot Swarm unleashed

#universityofsheffield #uos #uni #university #robot #robots #robotics #swarm #manufacturing #engineering The University of Sheffield has managed to get 40 mini-robots to group together as a ‘robot swarm’ to carry out simple tasks, like fetching and carrying substantial objects. The medical benefits of a programmable group of nano-bots are obvious, but the swarm could also have military or industrial applications.

Roderich Gross, head of the Natural Robotics Lab at the university, said: “We are developing Artificial Intelligence to control robots in a variety of ways. The key is to work out the minimum amount of information needed by the robot to accomplish its task. That’s important because the robot may not need any memory, and possibly not even a processing unit. So this technology could work for nano-scale robots — for example, in medical applications.”