Swarm robotics - involves large numbers of mostly simple physical robots.

In swarm robotics, self-organization is used to produce emergent behavior.

Both miniaturization and cost are key-factors in swarm robotics.

Ant robotics is a special case of swarm robotics.

Nolfi's research interests include: evolution of communication and language, language and action, adaptive behavior, swarm robotics.

Centibots were robots created around 2003 and designed to coordinate in large numbers in order to achieve a single goal, an early example of swarm robotics.

James McLurkin (1972 - ) is an engineering assistant professor at Rice University specializing in swarm robotics.

The application of swarm principles to robots is called swarm robotics, while swarm intelligence refers to the more general set of algorithms.

On the other hand swarm robotics can be suited to tasks that demand cheap designs, for instance mining tasks or agricultural foraging tasks.

Potential applications for swarm robotics include tasks that demand for miniaturization (nanorobotics, microbotics), like distributed sensing tasks in micromachinery or the human body.

Professor Winfield is showing off the research he has done into swarm robotics in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and we ask him about the development of robotic machines.

Nanomaterials deployed by swarm robotics may be helpful for decontaminating a site of a nuclear accident which poses hazards to humans because of high levels of radiation and radioactive particles.

Targeted to swarm robotics, a field of artificial intelligence, it was developed within the Swarm-bots project, a Future and Emerging Technologies project coordinated by Prof. Marco Dorigo.

Swarm robotics using the NXT and NXTBee might be capable of performing complex tasks such as PID auto-straightening, thermal imaging and even line tracking.

Due to their small size, microbots are potentially very cheap, and could be used in large numbers (swarm robotics) to explore environments which are too small or too dangerous for people or larger robots.

MRL was started with the primary aim of performing research in the fields of Swarm robotics, Multi-Robot Systems and Cooperative Robotics with applications to tasks such as cooperative transportation, robotic formations, cooperative search/rescue, and odor source localization.