Swarming

Smart ‘Joey’ bots could soon swarm underground to clean and inspect our pipes

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Joey’s design. Image credit: TL Nguyen, A Blight, A Pickering, A Barber, GH Jackson-Mills, JH Boyle, R Richardson, M Dogar, N Cohen By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers from the University of Leeds have developed the first mini-robot, called Joey, that can find its own way independently through networks of narrow pipes underground, to …

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Emergency-response drones to save lives in the digital skies

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Uncrewed aircraft in the sky above the headquarters of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges. © Helicus – Geert Vanhandenhove, Rik Van Boxem, 2022 By Gareth Willmer In a city in the future, a fire breaks out in a skyscraper. An alarm is triggered and a swarm of drones swoops in, surrounds the building and uses antennas …

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Radhika Nagpal at #NeurIPS2021: the collective intelligence of army ants

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The 35th conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS2021) featured eight invited talks. In this post, we give a flavour of the final presentation. The collective intelligence of army ants, and the robots they inspire Radhika Nagpal Radhika’s research focusses on collective intelligence, with the overarching goal being to understand how large groups of individuals, …

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Sniffy Bug: a fully autonomous swarm of gas-seeking nano quadcopters in cluttered environments

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Tiny drones are ideal candidates for fully autonomous jobs that are too dangerous or time-consuming for humans. A commonly shared dream by engineers and fire & rescue services, would be to have swarms of such drones help in search-and-rescue scenarios [1], for instance to localize gas leaks without endangering human lives. Tiny drones are ideal …

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Towards mapping unknown environments with a robot swarm

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Mapping is an essential task in many robotics applications. A map is a representation of the environment generated from robots positions and sensors data. A map can be either used to navigate the robot that built it, or shared with other agents: humans, software, or robots. To build a map, it is frequently assumed that …

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#331: Multi-Robot Learning, with Amanda Prorok

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Image credit: J. Blumenkamp, Q. Li, H. Zhong Robohub Podcast · Multi-Robot Learning In this episode, Lilly interviews Amanda Prorok, Professor of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Prorok discusses her research on multi-robot and multi-agent systems and learning coordination policies via Graph Neural Networks. They dig into her recent work on …

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Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

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Bluebots are fish-shaped robots that can coordinate their movements in three dimensions underwater, rather than the two dimensions previously achieved by Kilobots. Credit: Harvard SEAS By Leah Burrows / SEAS Communications Schools of fish exhibit complex, synchronized behaviors that help them find food, migrate, and evade predators. No one fish or sub-group of fish coordinates …

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#326: Deep Sea Mining, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo

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Robohub Podcast · Deep Sea Mining In this episode, Abate follows up with Benjamin Pietro Filardo, founder of Pliant Energy Systems and NACROM, the North American Consortium for Responsible Ocean Mining. Pietro talks about the deep sea mining industry, an untapped market with a massive potential for growth. Pietro discusses the current proposed solutions for …

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