Meet the "swarmies"- robotics' answer to bugs
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A small band of NASA engineers and interns is about to begin testing a group of robots and related software that will show whether it's possible for autonomous machines to scurry about an alien world such as the moon searching for and gathering resources just as an ant colony does.