Three dozen autonomous swarm robots mapping a standard home

A simulated swarm of three dozen autonomous robots explore and map a complex home environment by Josh Brandoff and Hiroki Sayama from the Binghamton University Bioengineering Department.

Swarm robotics is a relatively new field of research with a focus on mutually interacting, self-organizing robots that collectively achieve tasks solely through the use of decentralized local mechanisms. The idea is borrowed from biological systems, such as social insects, which show robust and adaptive collective intelligence. Compared to traditional robotic solutions, swarm robotics holds promise of providing more reliable and cost-effective solutions to various complex problems due to its distributed nature and decreased per-unit cost.

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