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Robotic construction crew needs no foreman |
February 15, 2014
On the plains of Namibia, millions of tiny termites are building a mound of soil—an 8-foot-tall “lung” for their underground nest. During a year of construction, many termites will live and die, wind and rain will erode the structure, and yet the colony’s life-sustaining project will continue. Inspired by the termites’ resilience and collective intelligence, a team of computer scientists and engineers has created an autonomous robotic construction crew. The system needs no supervisor, no eye in the sky, and no communication: just simple robots—any number of robots—that cooperate by modifying their environment.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/TgPnm1A8yOA/140213142134.htm
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