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Can robots cooperate?

Simplifying Complexity

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Robust, Adaptable, and Scalable Swarms of Robots

Scientists built a swarm of robots inspired by the behavior of foraging ants. The goal was to see if we have these limited, not technologically sophisticated robots, could we get them to cooperate and collectively achieve some goal. "We were hoping to show that we would be able to sort of engineer some small kinds of emergent properties from the interactions of robots," he says.

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