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Robots (10), Kilobot Swarming Robots

This is a robots (10).

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It has been able to spend time at the museum on loan from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

It is dated Designed 2012. Its medium is ferrous metal, brass, plastic, silicone, electronic components, led. It is a part of the department.

In nature, thousands of individuals can cooperate to create complex structures purely through mutual interactions -- from cells that self-organize to form complex organisms, to the mesmerizing motion of fish schools and bird flocks. The kilobot project endeavours to recreate that kind of complexity artificially, demonstrating for the first time a thousand simple robots, with no leader, cooperating amongst themselves to self-organize complex shape and behavior.

It is credited Gift of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 3 × 3 cm (1 3/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUssr/
Accession Number 143.2018.2
Object ID 2318800005