Brain-Dead Robots Prove They Can Swarm Together

   

What has no brain, no computer, but can swarm? The answer is simply a bristle bot. Just recently, roboticists at Harvard discovered that even brainless bristlebots are able to swarm and form groups. The experiment consisted of a small area and a bucket-load of bristle bots. Right away the robots started to swarm together in a corner of the area.

You may be wondering, how does this swarming even occur? Well, my guess is that each robot just keeps bouncing off each other. Take the small area these bots were placed in for example. Since the robots were packed together closely, then they just kept running into each other. This process of bumping and running into each other was just repeated over and over again. To sum this all up, nothing really scientific or extraordinary took place. Even so, the video of the swarming robots is still entertaining to watch!



Source: automaton blog and special thanks to evil mad scientist labs.