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This wasn't me doing this but I love it when you see bees swarming in interesting places. Here is an example of one such situation - trying to retrieve bees when they swarm onto a fence.
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In the future #Swarming robotic wars could look like this.
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Swarm robotics
Swarm robotics is a technological technique of using multiple simple robots to work as a team and follow instructions. This technology has been greatly inspired by the nature. There are many animals, insects and fishes which live in a swarm.
If you've ever seen a trail of ants streaming up a wall or over a counter, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were working in strict, militant harmony. Not so. A robotic test bed developed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark shows that this apparent order can emerge in artificial bodies following just a few simple rules.
Symbrion (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms) is a project funded by European Commissions to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum. One of the key-aspects of Symbrion is inspired by the biological world: an artificial genome that allows to store and evolve (sub)optimal configurations in order to achieve an increased speed of adaptation.
Dr Roderich Gross, head of the Natural Robotics Lab, in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, says swarming robots could have important roles to play in the future of micromedicine, as 'nanobots' are developed for non-invasive treatment of humans. On a larger scale, they could play a part in military, or search and rescue operations, acting together in areas where it would be too dangerous or impractical for humans to go. In industry too, robot swarms could be put to use, improving manufacturing processes and workplace safety.
Sources: Wikipedia. Symbrion.eu, Newscientist, Phys.org
Further reading: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-swarming-robots-servants-future-video.html
Alicebots on NewScientist: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/swarming-alice-bots.html
Reference : http://www.symbrion.eu/tiki-index.php
#science #scienceeveryday #robots #robotics #swarm #swarming #artificialintelligence
Swarm robotics is a technological technique of using multiple simple robots to work as a team and follow instructions. This technology has been greatly inspired by the nature. There are many animals, insects and fishes which live in a swarm.
If you've ever seen a trail of ants streaming up a wall or over a counter, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were working in strict, militant harmony. Not so. A robotic test bed developed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark shows that this apparent order can emerge in artificial bodies following just a few simple rules.
Symbrion (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms) is a project funded by European Commissions to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum. One of the key-aspects of Symbrion is inspired by the biological world: an artificial genome that allows to store and evolve (sub)optimal configurations in order to achieve an increased speed of adaptation.
Dr Roderich Gross, head of the Natural Robotics Lab, in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, says swarming robots could have important roles to play in the future of micromedicine, as 'nanobots' are developed for non-invasive treatment of humans. On a larger scale, they could play a part in military, or search and rescue operations, acting together in areas where it would be too dangerous or impractical for humans to go. In industry too, robot swarms could be put to use, improving manufacturing processes and workplace safety.
Sources: Wikipedia. Symbrion.eu, Newscientist, Phys.org
Further reading: http://phys.org/news/2013-03-swarming-robots-servants-future-video.html
Alicebots on NewScientist: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/swarming-alice-bots.html
Reference : http://www.symbrion.eu/tiki-index.php
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What a #buzz! #Swarming #bees in our #garden. #UrbanGardening
What a buzz! Some new visitors decided to make a stop in our garden: Bees! Every now and then a bee colony runs out of space. Part of the bees pack up and decide to find a new place: They swarm. On their way they stopped in our garden. Unfortunately they…
What a buzz! Some new visitors decided to make a stop in our garden: Bees! Every now and then a bee colony runs out of space. Part of the bees pack up and decide to find a new place: They swarm. On their way they stopped in our garden. Unfortunately they…
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Bait ball - The Science of swarms Thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed. Indeed, enough physicists, biologists, and engineers have gotten involved that the science itself seems to be hitting a density-dependent shift. Without obvious leaders or an overarching plan, this collective of the collective-obsessed is finding that the rules that produce majestic cohesion out of local jostling turn up in everything from neurons to human beings. Behavior that seems impossibly complex can have disarmingly simple foundations. And the rules may explain everything from how cancer spreads to how the brain works and how armadas of robot-driven cars might someday navigate highways. The way individuals work together may actually be more important than the way they work alone.
British Wildlife photographer Christopher Swann swam in
the midst of a frenetic battle of life and death to capture these
images off the coast of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean.
Article (Extract) Link: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/
The National Science foundation paper on swarming behavior and the Bait Ball phenomena: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.3330.pdf
Video link: Bluefin Tuna Eat Bait Ball
Link to the original work of the Photographer Christopher Swann: http://www.sciencephoto.com/static/features/1349-Bait-ball-frenzy.pdf
#science #scienceeveryday #baitball #bait #swarm #swarming #dolphin #shark #fish #biology #simulation
British Wildlife photographer Christopher Swann swam in
the midst of a frenetic battle of life and death to capture these
images off the coast of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean.
Article (Extract) Link: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/
The National Science foundation paper on swarming behavior and the Bait Ball phenomena: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.3330.pdf
Video link: Bluefin Tuna Eat Bait Ball
Link to the original work of the Photographer Christopher Swann: http://www.sciencephoto.com/static/features/1349-Bait-ball-frenzy.pdf
#science #scienceeveryday #baitball #bait #swarm #swarming #dolphin #shark #fish #biology #simulation
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