Watch a swarm of 300 robots reorganize autonomously
By: Kelsey D. Atherton  
459Share to TwitterShare to Google+Share to EmailShare to More
141
By sensing and changing with the environment, robots are able to assemble into formations through individual action. (Screenshot by Kelsey D. Atherton)
Against the white void, the assembled robots look like nothing so much as ball bearings with Christmas lights on.
This is a mass of kilobots, minimalistic robots that each contain an LED light, a vibrating motor and the ability to communicate with other nearby kilobots via infrared signals. And after a human tears a swath through their assembled clusters, the robots organically, intuitively, autonomously reform into a similar shape, guided by nothing so much as its own basic rules.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/robotics/2018/12/23/watch-a-swarm-of-300-robots-reorganize-autonomously/
