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(Text is in German, but video in English.)

Self-organizing equipment could cut energy bills.

Crazy ants.

Programmable matter - another nice title for an ACT project...

From Nick!!! - this is very nice!!!

Sorry, in German, but a nice critical article on swarm intelligence.

Typically, we send rovers to our planetary neighbors one at a time -- but what if we sent a small team of smaller, less impressive robots instead? That's the idea NASA is exploring at Kennedy Space Center with Swarmies: a quartet of four autonomous robots designed to work together to complete a single mission.

This collaborating swarm of drones acts as 3D pixels (voxels) to create giant, flying interactive displays.

I have never understood the flying part of these things. Isn't it really impracticle to have all those tiny quadrocopters zooming around. My money is on holography or still a google glass type of device, if only considering the energy requirements for doing anything kinetically.

Swarm-based fabrication of interwoven composite tubes via a fully autonomous, cooperative system can help create architectural-scale structures in effective and efficient ways, including in remote environments.

"A list of the many different animals, plants, microbes, natural phenomena and supernatural activities that can be spotted in the wild lands of the metaphor-based computation literature"