Nature's genius blueprint
The algorithms of the crowd
Swarms at work
The frontier and the rules
YOUR GOAL
Master of The secret language of robot swarms
007skaty The Algorithms of the Crowd
Keep your distance, match their speed, and pull close to move as one.
007skaty Harvard's Self-Organizing Systems Research Group debuted 1,024 Kilobots that use infrared transmitters to communicate and cooperate on physical
007skaty Guide your robot buddies to discover how autonomous swarms coordinate without a central leader.
Hollywood swarm stars: The terrifying penguin army in the 1992 movie Batman Returns was actually a computer-generated swarm running on bird-flight math.
A computer-simulated agent that mimics the flocking behavior of birds or other animals. Craig Reynolds created this model in 1986 to simulate how decentralized groups navigate collectively.
What type of signal do Harvard's Kilobots use to communicate with their immediate neighbors?
What is the name of the 1986 computer program that first simulated bird flocking behavior?
Why are decentralized swarm robotics systems more resilient than centralized ones?
What mathematical voting protocols do swarm robots use to make collective decisions?
Which movie first used Craig Reynolds' Boids algorithm to render massive crowds of digital penguins?