I have just found this blog post from when I took part at the Festival of Nature.
I have just found this blog post from when I took part at the Festival of Nature.
Dave Naish from Bristol Zoo and Professor Alan Winfield from UWE demonstrated how swarms of animals interact and work collaboratively, and how swarm intelligence is being used in robotics.
Dave explained how ants can achieve complex engineering feats such as building bridges by working collectively. Alan then showed how analysing the behaviour of groups of insects was informing the design of innovative robots.
Using the idea of “swarm intelligence,” groups of robots can work collectively to collect information about their surroundings and interact with each other. Programming robots to perform such tasks helps to understand how swarms function in nature, and also develops new capacities for emerging robotics technologies.
The Robots vs. Animals project is a collaboration between the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol Zoo and the UWE Science Communication Unit supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Awards.
#robotics #swarmrobotics #festivalofnature #bristol #brl #uwe #alanwinfield #robotsvsanimals #animals #bristolzoo #jessicameyer
http://robotsvsanimals.net/2014/06/26/roaches-vs-robots-at-the-festival-of-nature/
Dave Naish from Bristol Zoo and Professor Alan Winfield from UWE demonstrated how swarms of animals interact and work collaboratively, and how swarm intelligence is being used in robotics.
Dave explained how ants can achieve complex engineering feats such as building bridges by working collectively. Alan then showed how analysing the behaviour of groups of insects was informing the design of innovative robots.
Using the idea of “swarm intelligence,” groups of robots can work collectively to collect information about their surroundings and interact with each other. Programming robots to perform such tasks helps to understand how swarms function in nature, and also develops new capacities for emerging robotics technologies.
The Robots vs. Animals project is a collaboration between the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol Zoo and the UWE Science Communication Unit supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Awards.
#robotics #swarmrobotics #festivalofnature #bristol #brl #uwe #alanwinfield #robotsvsanimals #animals #bristolzoo #jessicameyer
http://robotsvsanimals.net/2014/06/26/roaches-vs-robots-at-the-festival-of-nature/
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