Swarm intelligence and robots
Stumble It!MoreIntelligentLife report on James McLurkin’s, a PhD student at MIT Computer Science and AI Lab, talk at the Idea Festival in Louisville about distributed robotics and swarm behavior.
Good philosophical stuff and practical insights on the co-ordination challenge as the numbers of robots increase!
BUT IT'S OK, THEY'RE HERE TO HELP YOU
Thanks to Brian Cleland of InterTradeIreland for finding this!
Tags: agents, robots, swarm intelligence
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