They are many, and they work together. And they are getting more clever...
(The award-winning film is by Mauro Birattari and Rehan O'Grady)
Thanks to our sister site, New Scientist, for highlighting this rather sinister one - a co-ordinated raid by 'eye-bots', 'foot-bots', and 'hand-bots' to grab a book from a high shelf.
They are many, and they work together. And they are getting more clever...
(The award-winning film is by Mauro Birattari and Rehan O'Grady)
Melissae Fellet writes:
You could call it Mission Impossible: Robot Library Heist. An army of flying, rolling, and climbing robots have been taught to work together to find and snatch a book from a high shelf.Read the full post >>
In a striking display of military-like precision, the robotic team, dubbed the 'Swarmanoid', attacks the problem with flying 'eye-bots' and rolling 'foot-bots'. A 'hand-bot' then fires a grappling hook-like device up to the ceiling and scales the bookshelf. Footage of the experiment, conducted by Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and colleagues, won the video competition at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco earlier this week.
It's a simple demonstration, but in the future Dorigo says the robots could be tasked with more difficult and important tasks. For instance, a bot team equipped like firefighters could wait in a building and spring to action when disaster strikes.
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