Kilobots talk by flashing pink, inexperienced and blue lights
MC Miguel
A swarm of small, wiggling robots that talk by flashing lights at one another can make collective decisions. This is just like the method bees use to succeed in consensus on the place to construct their nest.
“We believe that in the near future there are going to be simple robots that will do jobs that we don’t want to do, and it will be very important that they make decisions in a decentralised, autonomous manner,” says Carmen Miguel on the University of …