Swarming robots
14 March 2008
UWE is one of ten international partners selected to participate in Symbrion, a European funded project researching how groups of robots 'swarm'. Mirroring the natural world, these sugar-cube sized robots will be capable of self organising, self healing and forming a 'symbiotic artificial organism' using sensors to interact with the physical world.
Professor Alan Winfield summarises, 'once the robots come together they will be more versatile - like colony of cells such as those found in a jelly fish or a sponge. The different cells (ie robots) will cooperate to create the larger organism. In a sponge even if there is damage to some parts, the overall organism still survives. In this way the artificial robotic organisms might in theory become self-configuring, self healing, and self optimising from both hardware and software perspectives.'
- Author:
- Emma Scott
- Publisher:
- CTN
- Date:
- 14 March 2008
- Categories:
- Research
- Sections:
- News
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