All articles tagged with #swarm robotics
Princeton researchers built a 40‑unit swarm of modular SGbots that sense light and bloom a thin plastic sheet to adapt façades and interior spaces; demonstrations include autonomous shading of an office window and interactive, gesture-controlled displays, with future work focusing on real‑world deployment feasibility and more sustainable materials.
Scientists at Harvard have developed a method to control living fruit flies as microrobots, guiding swarms to perform complex tasks like writing 'HELLO WORLD' and navigating mazes, leveraging the flies' natural reflexes and optogenetics, with potential applications in environmental monitoring and disaster response.
NASA has selected the Swarming Proxima Centauri project for Phase I development, aiming to utilize gram-scale spacecraft propelled by a 100-gigawatt laser beamer to reach Proxima Centauri and its Earth-like exoplanet by the third quarter of this century. The project, led by Space Initiatives Inc. and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, could have applications in space exploration, Earth observation, medicine, additive manufacturing, environmental studies, and more through the development of a coherent swarm of robotic probes.
NASA has selected a proposal called Swarming Proxima Centauri, which involves using gram-scale spacecraft propelled by a 100-gigawatt laser beamer to reach Proxima Centauri and its Earth-like exoplanet by the third quarter of this century. The concept, developed by Space Initiatives Inc. and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, aims to overcome the challenges of interstellar travel by utilizing swarm dynamics and autonomous navigation. The mission could have applications in space exploration, Earth observation, and various fields on Earth, but the primary obstacle remains the cost of the laser array.