You might think that robots will get more capable of performing complex tasks, but the way forward may be simpler, and more complex… Take a look at this amazing video of footbots, handbots and flying eyebots all working together as a “swarmanoid”, a parallel distributed system, to accomplish a task. It’s just like ant colony full of individuals who behave in unison so that they resemble a single organism as much as they do many separate ones. What’s amazing here of course is that it’s Man who has created such an interesting amalgamation of functionality that it almost seems to add up to some form of primitive consciousness.
Holy Robot Swarms, Batman!
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