The Robotic Intelligence Lab from the University of Wales has been studying ant behavior. They hope to put this behavior into 8 e-puck robots,the lab hopes to acquire 25 more robots soon, to form a society of robots.

Dr Torbjorn Dahl of the Robotic Intelligence Laboratory states:

Our aim is to create a mini-society of robots with built-in behavioural patterns that enable them to not only do tasks set them but also realize what else needs to be done, as worker ants do.

The key word here folks is realize, as in it can think for itself. Mankind’s doom will not come from Terminator style robots, but from many small robots forming a swarm like these. Check out a previous post on swarm robotics. Videos after the break.

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e-puck robots avoiding obstacles.



We have also included this video of swarm robotics from MIT’s James McLurkin.