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Can robots cooperate?

Simplifying Complexity

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Scalability in Robotics

In the end we built about 100 robots but we never had them functioning in a swarm. We wanted to use them to make functional swarms or robots that could navigate the sort of uncertainty and chaos of the real world. In simulation we could have thousands many thousands of robots spreading out over a landscape. The same tool really can be built used to build different kinds of maps. That's kind of the beauty of these biologically inspired ideas is that we used over and over in biology.

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