Swarm Systems


Swarms of Robots Join the Army -- David Hambling  -- Guardian  -- August 21, 2008
Micro Air Vehicles

Intelligent swarms of autonomous, decentralized robots that look like insects could soon be deployed for military information-gathering and reconnaissance.

[ More ]

A tiny robot swarm - fiction no longer -- Robert C. Cowen  -- Christian Science Monitor  -- April 7, 2005
Artificial Life

NASA researchers on developing swarms of micro "nanobots" that have "abundant flexibility" to change shape into land rovers, antennas, or other devices as needed when exploring distant worlds.

[ More ]

Send in the Swarm -- Stuart F. Brown  -- Fortune  -- June 1, 2004
Artificial Life

"Military brainstormers think that scores or hundreds or even a few thousand cheap robots working in concert may play an important role in future operations such as land-mine disposal or taking over buildings held by bad guys."

[ More ]

UW professors develop terrorist defense robots -- Staff  -- USA Today  -- June 3, 2003
Biological Warfare

Using technology known as multi-modal sensor arrays, researchers from the University of Wyoming have developed small, swarming robots that have been programmed to detect and disable chemical targets in the war on terrorism.

[ More ]

Military robots to get swarm intelligence -- Will Knight  -- New Scientist  -- April 25, 2003
Military Robots

DARPA has funded a project to equip a battalion of 120 military robots with swarm intelligence software to enable them to mimic organized insect behavior.

[ More ]

Cell Biology: Like the Bee, This Evolving Species Buzzes and Swarms -- Joel Garreau  -- Washington Post  -- July 31, 2002
Artificial Life

A review of new research on swarming, a behavior that is transforming social, work, military and even political lives worldwide, especially among the young. It is the unintended consequence of people, cell phones in hand, learning that they can coordinate instantly and leaderlessly.

[ More ]

Motivating the Masses, Wirelessly -- John Schwartz  -- New York Times  -- July 22, 2002
Artificial Life

An interview with Howard Rheingold on his theory that the convergence of wireless communications technologies and widely distributed networks allow swarming on a scale that has never existed before. He envisions shifts along the lines of those that began to occur when people first settled into villages and formed nation-states. "We are on the verge of a major series of social changes that are closely tied into emerging technologies," he said.

[ More ]

Gyre.org Newsletter

Subscribe for Updates

Syndicate content