A team has created new algorithms that aim to strike a balance between the two extremes, allowing robots to move in a swarm safely and efficiently.

Ant colonies are the ultimate example of swarm behavior, which has led to the development of swarm robotics. Inspired by how ants work seamlessly to achieve a common goal, swarm robotics allows ...

The next experiment from Rice University's Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory (MRSL) could happen on your desktop. MRSL researchers are refining their control algorithms for robotic swarms based upon ...

Engineers are constnatly tweaking the swarm's algorithm to make it smarter.

Proving that particles in a theoretical world can run a simple algorithm and achieve specific swarm behaviors is one thing. Actually implementing the algorithm in cheap, faulty, real-life ...

“A smart contract platform enabled a robot swarm to detect inconsistencies in robots’ behaviors—some of the robots were Byzantine [or adversarial]—demonstrating how blockchain technology could add a ...

These "particle robots," as the team calls them, are simple, circular devices that can connect to each other magnetically to move and work as a swarm. Individually, the robots are pretty basic.

Here comes the swarm. Scientists at Harvard University have created the first 1,000-strong swarm of robots that can assemble themselves into different shapes upon command. Using 1,024 three-legged ...