Morphogenesis in robot swarms

Sabine Hauert at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and collaborators EMBL Barcelona published a paper in Science Robotics last month that looked at how swarms of robots can self-organize and collaborate to create shapes and patterns without any kind of centralized control. This happens all the time in our bodies, since cells can only really talk to the cells immediately around them- it’s remarkable that we don’t all fall to pieces, and this research is helping us understand why.

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