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Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'

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Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'. / Vehlken, Sebastian.
In: Spool, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2017, p. 17-25.

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Vehlken, S 2017, 'Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'', Spool, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2017.1.1911

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Vehlken, S. (2017). Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'. Spool, 4(1), 17-25. https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2017.1.1911

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Vehlken S. Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'. Spool. 2017;4(1):17-25. doi: 10.7480/spool.2017.1.1911

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abstract = "Not only recent Science Fiction – e.g., Star Trek Beyond (USA 2016) – celebrates the capacities of robot collectives. Also RoboCup, an annual robot soccer competition, or Harvard University{\textquoteright}s Kilobot Project show stunning examples of the central idea behind Swarm Robotics: »[U]sing swarms is the same as getting a bunch of small cheap dumb things to do the same job as an expensive smart thing« (Beni/Wang 1989). This article examines some crucial aspects of the techno-history of a research field which intertwines engineering and biological knowledge and whose applications deal with compelling questions about synchronization and self-organization in changing environments – on the ground, in the air, and under water.",
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