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15 of August, 16:20

Scientists have created a whole army of robots (video)
Researchers from the Harvard Institute has designed a whole army of little kilomoto, each of which displacement is not a very big coin.

Robots in 1024 units ready to communicate on a simple level with its neighbors, allowing "army" to apply the fundamentals of collective consciousness for the erection of a two-dimensional configurations.

Robots are composed of washer-like shape, the so-called kilabot, very inexpensive in manufacture - their price is around $ 20 apiece (about 700 rubles). For their movement answer 2 miniature vibrating motor. Each unit army vehicles operates a special program, which sets rules for the adoption of specific forms that bots should form in the end.

For example, first kilabot are quite close to each other in a free form on a flat surface. Then 4 bot-instructor placed in the cluster, and robots on the far side of them slowly begin to move towards the instructors.

For information transfer robots use infrared light. With all this, every single bot is able to interact with several of their own neighbors and to measure the distance to them. Simple bots are not ready to affect the whole team.

As a starting point coordinate system are robots instructors. Information about their locations distributed along the chain from bot to bot.

Consequently, other robots in the ranks have the opportunity to find their location and associate it with the place-the goal you want to achieve. Reconfiguration of the free-form is given in robots about 12 hours - then the bots will line up in the form of stars or, for example, the letter "K".

"Reconfigurable army kilomoto like on their own behavior in ants can build entire bridges from your own phone, This so-called modular behavior allows the system units to promptly adapt to the surrounding environment," - said in a press release, Harvard Institute of basic Creator research Michael Rubinstein.

Taking into account the opinion of the engineers, their project can be useful for creating programmable matter: tiny robots, each the size of a grain of sand, will be able to take the form of scissors, wrench, coffee cups. However until then, the future is still far away, so as long as that kilabot ready to accept exclusively two-dimensional form, but not three-dimensional, to the same scalenet, mechanical characteristics of the resulting object still leave much to be desired.

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