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Can robots cooperate?

Simplifying Complexity

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How to Scale a Robotic Swarm

The swarm was modeled as a branching tree starting from the collection spot and going out to the tips. Each of those dump trucks had a particular distance they would go, and a speed that they would go. As long as you match the rate of collection with the rate of deposit at each point in the system, we could actually show that you could have a perfectly indefinitely scalable swarm.

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