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The interesting Kilobot project from Harvard for investigating multi-robot behavior with masses of small dumb robots has been made open hardware for a year now.

However I cannot find so much activity about robot creation and movies about results. Is it too hard to create the robots, the programmer, the charger or isn't the project interesting enough?

Ian
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rics
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    Whoa, there are waay to many questions here. You may want to split it up. Aside from that, your questions (1),(4),(5) are of the "not constructive" type, they are rather make-a-list-y and likely to be closed. Your questions may be more suited to [chat] – Manishearth Dec 18 '12 at 11:15
  • I agree. This is a fishing or survey question. Please ask specific, answerable questions. – Josh Vander Hook Dec 18 '12 at 16:08
  • OK, I have updated, hopefully accordingly. – rics Dec 18 '12 at 19:13
  • I believe swarm intelligence is not as hot a topic as it was before (was it the 80s?). That's probably why there isn't much effort in trying to implement something using kilobots. – Shahbaz Dec 19 '12 at 12:56
  • Thanks rics, I think your update makes your question more practical. – Mark Booth Dec 21 '12 at 11:38
  • Seconded. Good update. – Ian Dec 27 '12 at 22:36

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It appears that Nikolaus Correll at CU-Boulder is doing research with a derivative of the kilobots: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/12/14/cu-boulder-team-develops-swarm-pingpong-ball-sized-robots

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  • I would say that Correll's work is similar in spirit but it is not connected to Kilobots. – rics Jan 03 '13 at 20:42