Researchers at Adelaide University have developed a new type of robotic system inspired by bees and ants that could make ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Swarm Intelligence, inspired by collective behaviors in nature, is now being applied to robotics, enabling multiple humanoid robots to collaborate seamlessly on complex tasks. UBTech's Walker S1 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bees, ants, and termites build complex structures without blueprints, architects, or construction supervisors. Their colonies ...

Pollination is a crucial part of global food production. And yet, bee populations continue to decline as we rip away their habitats, continue to fail in our fight against climate change, and use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swarms of microrobots have been designed to help get rid of bacterial sinus infections. After completing the task, these tiny ...

Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The ...

A study published in Engineering explores a novel robot subset selection strategy for multi-user edge computing systems, designed to maximize the operational lifetime of robot swarms by exploiting ...

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 ...

In one part of a laboratory in Bristol, UK, scientists are designing a nanoparticle swarm that will be able to target and kill tumour cells intelligently. Interactions between the tiny but simple ...