http://www.multiagent.com/node/575 Comments for "Swarms of Robots" en http://www.multiagent.com/node/575 <p class="initial">New Scientist has an interesting article on <a href="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13244-shapeshifting-robot-forms-from-magnetic-swarm.html">shape shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm</a> which describes multi-robot (swarm robotics) research going on at CMU and other places. The video is pretty neat too: </p> <center> <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e44hA6IBtkA&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e44hA6IBtkA&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> </center> <p> I also noticed this quote: </p> <blockquote> But software, not hardware, may be the biggest challenge facing researchers working on swarms of robots, he [Alan Winfield] says: "Right now we just don't know how to design a system that produces complex overall behaviours from a group of simple agents." </blockquote> <p> Luckily for them, that is exactly the problem that multiagent researchers have been tackling for over a decade. Unluckily, it is a hard problem to solve, at least for some definitions of "complex ". </p> http://www.multiagent.com/node/575#comment robotics swarm Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:31:33 -0600 jmvidal 575 at http://www.multiagent.com