Forget teaching robots to think like humans. A field called swarm robotics is taking inspiration from ants, bees and even slime molds—simple creatures that achieve remarkable feats through collective ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

Scale is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the AI and robotics “revolution,” which is to say: How are we going to set up all the infrastructure needed for all these autonomous tools? One ...

When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Stuttgart – Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the University of Michigan, and Cornell University have demonstrated a breakthrough in microrobotics: swarms of ...

Researchers’ video of a swarm of microrobots dividing in two under magnetic-field manipulation. (Video: Kijun Yang, et al./Hanyang University) Forget teaching robots to think like humans. A field ...