[Tyler]

A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm
14 August 2014, 11:18 pm

The first thousand-robot flash mob has assembled at Harvard University. Just as trillions of individual cells can assemble into an intelligent organism, or a thousand starlings can form a great flowing murmuration across the sky, the Kilobots demonstrate how complexity can arise from very simple behaviors performed en masse. To computer scientists, they also represent a significant milestone in the development of collective artificial intelligence.

Source: Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily