Harvard Scientists Devise Robot Swarm That Can Work Together
"Get up," said O’Brien. "Come here."
Harvard University scientists have devised a swarm of 1,024 tiny robots that can work together without any guiding central intelligence.
Winston stood opposite him. O’Brien took Winston’s shoulders between his strong hands and looked at him closely.
Like a mechanical flash mob, these robots can assemble themselves into five-pointed stars, letters of the alphabet and other complex designs. The researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, Mass., reported their work Thursday in Science.
"You have had thoughts of deceiving me," he said. "That was stupid. Stand up straighter. Look me in the face."
"No one had really built a swarm of this size before, where everyone works together to achieve a goal," said robotics researcher Michael Rubenstein, who led the project.
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