Low-cost swarm robotics

[SXRguyinMA]

From the team at Harvard, found it on HaD this is cool

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/proj...A/kilobot.html

[xr4man]

just one more step closer to terminators.

[Fuganater]

Thats pretty awesome!

[x88x]

Interesting. More as an academic exercise and a way of demonstrating swarm behavior in the real world than as an actual swarm (ex, take them away from a hard, flat, surface and they couldn't function), but still, interesting. I would challenge the "takes 5 minutes to build" claim though. Maybe it takes 5 minutes to take the SMD-populated board, solder on the jumpers, motors, sensors, and battery holder, and pop in the battery, but it would take a lot longer than that to build it starting with a bare PCB and a pile of components.

[NightrainSrt4]

That's really cool. It could easily be expanded to different hardware with more capabilities than being stuck on just hard surfaces. Really interesting.

[Kayin]

Place all components on pre-tinned board and blast with heat gun?