Swarming Robots Could Serve Humans in Future

Scientists are developing a team of coordinating robots that could eventually serve humans in future, relying on networking to accomplish a range of tasks.

According to the researchers at the Sheffield Center for Robotics of the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, the research team is presently working on 40 robots and finalizing the programming. They also mentioned that the ability to control these robots will be very helpful for mankind. These would range from military to medical applications.

These robots will have the capability to accomplish a work by working together as a team and also work according to the priority.

Dr Roderich Gross, head of the Natural Robotics Lab says swarming robots could have important roles to play in the future of micro-medicine, as ‘nanobots’ are developed for non-invasive treatment of humans.

On a larger scale, they could play a part in military, or search and rescue operations, acting together in areas where it would be too dangerous or impractical for humans to go. In industry too, robot swarms could be put to use, improving manufacturing processes and workplace safety.

“We are developing Artificial Intelligence to control robots in a variety of ways. The key is to work out what is the minimum amount of information needed by the robot to accomplish its task,” Gross said in a statement.

“That’s important because it means the robot may not need any memory, and possibly not even a processing unit, so this technology could work for nanoscale robots, for example in medical applications,” he said.

The most important thing is that these robots will find heavy usage in the medical and military division as they are modeled for coordinated work output.

Source: indiatimes.com, topnews.com