Cooperation

Robots are great at many things, but working together in an unfamiliar setting isn't one of them – until now, that is. A team of researchers from MIT has developed an algorithm that streamlines the way robots collaborate on construction tasks, significantly cutting down planning time.

Harvard's Self-Organizing Systems Research Group has published some videos showing up to 100 Kilobots working together.

Harvard University has licensed the technology for its tiny Kilobots, enabling other groups and institutions to purchase them for research purposes.

The Swarmanoid project uses a variety of cooperating miniature robots to locate and retrieve a book.

Kilobots are tiny autonomous swarming robots, that cost about $14 a piece to build.

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Cooperation, despite being now considered the third force of evolution, just behind mutation and natural selection, is difficult to explain in the context of an evolutionary process based on competition between individuals and selfish behavior. But this puzzle, that has haunted scientists for decade