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2 months ago | science.org | Maxim Zaslavsky |Wenjian Sun |Fangmiao Sun |Marc S. Lavine

Robotics Collectives acting as solids or fluidsMarc S. LavineMotorized gears, magnets, and photodiodes enable collective action of robots based on principles from cell biology. Open in viewerOne vision for robotics is to design groups of simple robots that work together, for example, like a colony of ants that can move like a flowing fluid but can also form a solid structure such as a bridge for an unpassable span. Devlin et al.

2 months ago | science.org | Maxim Zaslavsky |Wenjian Sun |Fangmiao Sun |Gabriela Gonzalez |Gabriela González

Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.