A robot made of robots: Emergent transport and control of a smarticle ensemble
- 11 September 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Robotics
- Vol. 4 (34), eaax4316
- https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aax4316
Abstract
Directed locomotion of a collective robot composed of stochastically interacting immotile robots was achieved.Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (PoLS-0957659)
- National Science Foundation (PHY-1205878)
- National Science Foundation (DMR-1551095)
- National Science Foundation (CBET-1637764)
- National Science Foundation
- Army Research Office (W911NF-13-1-0347)
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