http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/clipcast/SwarmTechnology/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/clipcast/SwarmTechnology/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E18DBA76-4AE7-4E42-99BB-564FB6D5CBFC/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/rmowery/">rmowery</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10319" title="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10319">www.newscientisttech.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H4 class='inline'>Robot swarm works together to shift heavy objects</H4></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI> 18:47 17 October 2006 </LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI> NewScientist.com news service </LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI>Tom Simonite </LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>A "swarm" of simple-minded robots that teams up to move an object too heavy for them to manage individually has been demonstrated by robotics researchers. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The robots cannot communicate and must act only on what they can see around them. They follow simple rules to fulfil their task – mimicking the way insects work together in a swarm. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The robots were developed by Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, along with colleagues at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy and the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and Dalle Molle Institute for the Study of Artificial Intelligence, both in Switzerland.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>A video shows the six Swarm-bot robots <a href="http://www.swarm-bots.org/dllink.php?id=587&amp;type=movies" target="ns">gradually transporting a object lit with red LEDs over to a large white target</a>. </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/robots/" rel="tag">robots</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/robotics/" rel="tag">robotics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/swarms/" rel="tag">swarms</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/swarm+technology/" rel="tag">swarm technology</a></div>http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10319Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:26:13 GMT