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Can robots cooperate?

Simplifying Complexity

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The Evolution of the Hierarchical Transport Network

The basic searching behaviors, more kind of this emergent property, we're able to copy the way that ants do that. And so at that point, the transport part of the swarm is still autonomous. The robots aren't there's no central controller right the robots get to a particular place they have a particular behavior that they use. We had to impose this hierarchy of movement in simulation we imagined and we actually built dump trucks. But it's not that sort of, you know, truly adaptive behavior that would, but that we had with our original swarm.

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