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Title    Collective Construction by Termite-inspired Robots
Date    Saturday February 15 2014, @08:08AM
Author    Dopefish
Topic   
from the the-robots-are-taking-over dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/15/0749251

omoc writes:

"Inspired by the termites' resilience and collective intelligence, a team of computer scientists and engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created an autonomous robotic construction crew. The system needs no supervisor, no eye in the sky, and no communication: just simple robots—any number of robots—that cooperate by modifying their environment.

The TERMES robots can build towers, castles, and pyramids out of foam bricks, autonomously building themselves staircases to reach the higher levels and adding bricks wherever they are needed. In the future, similar robots could lay sandbags in advance of a flood, or perform simple construction tasks on Mars."

[Ed. Note] Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-02-self-organizing-robot s-robotic-crew-foreman.html

Links

  1. "created an autonomous robotic construction crew." - http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/projects/cons/termes.html
  2. "system needs no supervisor" - http://phys.org/news/2014-02-self-organizing-robots-robotic-crew-foreman.html
  3. "http://phys.org/news/2014-02-self-organizing-robot s-robotic-crew-foreman.html" - http://phys.org/news/2014-02-self-organizing-robots-robotic-crew-foreman.html

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