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Kilobots, the name given to these extremely simple robots, are just a few centimeters across, standing on three pinlike legs. Instead of one highly complex robot, a “kilo” of robots collaborate, providing a simple platform for the enactment of complex behaviors. Just as trillions of individual cells can assemble into an intelligent organism, or 1,000 starlings can form a great flowing murmuration across the sky, the Kilobots demonstrate how complexity can arise from very simple behaviors performed en masse.
To computer scientists, they also represent a significant milestone in the development of collective artificial intelligence.Image credit: Michael Rubenstein, Harvard University
