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"Particle" Robots: The Bio-inspired Bots That Move With No Brain

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Published: March 25, 2019

| Taken from Nature Video, YouTube

Researchers have built a robot made up of individual ‘particles’ that moves with no centralized control. The bots rely on the same kind of statistical mechanics that allows groups of cells to move, creating some intriguing possibilities.