Swarms of microrobots with big goals
Swarms of microrobots with big goalsIn “Mini robots to undertake major tasks?,”IST Results describes a EU-funded project which allowed to build several kinds of microrobots in the last three years. These robots are very small (about 1.5 cm by 3 cm), have limited on-board intelligence and are wirelessly controlled by a central robot control system. A follow-on project has already started, with an even more ambitious goal: deploy “real” swarms of up to 1,000 robot clients. Such robot swarms are expected to perform “a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks.”
(Via Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends.)
[tags]robot,ai,self organising system[/tags]
