Bugs

Bugs are general purpose robotic platforms designed for experimentation with ideas of swarm intelligence. They are physically embodied autonomous agents interacting as an artificial life system. Each robot is programmed with simple rules such as "seek light" and "avoid obstacles". Through their interaction with each other and the environment these simple low level behaviors give rise to interesting higher level patterns of organization.
This video is from their first installation/trial run at California College of the Arts as part of San Francisco Cinematheque's program "Hand on Hands off" curated by Jun Jalbuena.

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