Harvard Scientists Create 1000-Robot Swarm

Like a school of fish or a flock of birds, computer robots can now organize themselves into a formation to achieve a specific goal – all without human involvement.

Harvard devised a swarm of self organizing Robots

Harvard University researchers devised a “swarm” of 1024 tiny robots that, “like a mechanical flash mob,” can assemble themselves into various shapes without requiring detailed instruction, a Wall Street Journal report noted.

To enlighten robots with a kind of “hive intelligence,” Dr. Michael Rubenstein and his research colleagues developed a computer algorithm allowing a very large group...