Swarmanoid

A good example of structure modules and components forming a super-organism. Swarm robotics is a good source of inspiration when thinking about formations of "mini-gaias" through fluid, mobile living.



http://www.swarmanoid.org

The Swarmanoid project (IST-022888) is a Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-OPEN) project funded by the European Commission.

The main scientific objective of this research project is the design, implementation and control of a novel distributed robotic system. The system will be made up of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots. Collectively, these robots will form what we call a swarmanoid. The swarmanoid that we intend to build will be comprised of numerous (about 60) autonomous robots of three types: eye-bots, hand-bots, and foot-bots.