Researchers Develop Swarm of Ping Pong Ball Sized Robots
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Researchers at University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor Nikolaus Correll, created a swarm of twenty of the robots, they call "droplets." They are also developing software to enable the robots to work together. They plan to use this software as a platform for more complex swarm robotics. Correll says swarms of robots could one day be unleashed to contain an oil spill or to self-assemble into hardware in space.
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