Ask 100 robotics scientists why they’re inspired to create modern-day automatons and you may get 100 different answers. For a team at Harvard University, it’s termites. “Not the ones around here that ...

A robotics company called Geek+ says it’s developed a swarm of autonomous worker robots numbering in the thousands that can learn and improve the more it works, growing smarter over time. Again: The ...

Swarm robotics design follows the behavior of insects operating in a group, such as ants and bees. Autonomous robots need to be aware of their power system, especially regarding battery life. Power ...

The phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is doubly true for SWARM, the WashU Robotics team on the cutting edge of modular robotics. The project’s 15 members are working to create ...

China’s military has put its latest generation of quadruped combat robots through a coordinated urban warfare drill, pairing ...

The origins of swarm robotics lie in explorations of principles of self-organization and collective decision-making. The early 2000s marked the transition of swarm robotics from theory to practice as ...

The prestigious, single-track conference in the field of robotics takes place every two years and has a paper acceptance rate of around 30%. The Best Paper Award is given based on both the live ...

Picture a futuristic swarm of robots deployed on a time-sensitive task, like cleaning up an oil spill or assembling a machine ...

A new network of autonomous swarm robots can work together to form various structures and shapes, all without receiving any big-picture instructions or design blueprints. This new research from the ...

The Norwegian Army has selected Valkyrie, the autonomous drone swarm system developed by Six Robotics for a pilot program focused on concept and technology development, to be run across multiple Army ...