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futuramb: Buy Your Own Robot Swarm | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation At $14 a pop (in construction costs), the Kilobots are actually cheap enough to create a swarm, if you’re so inclined. Unlike other robot swarm prototypes, they can be programmed en masse with an infrared controller and charged simply by moving in between a pair of conductive surfaces. When price as falling under a certain point things will be available and even attractive to the masses. In this case the masses might be nerds trying to understand swarm behavior or maybe even develop swarm algorithms that might solve difficult problems. One step closer to engineering swarm behavior in a scale never seen before…

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At $14 a pop (in construction costs), the Kilobots are actually cheap enough to create a swarm, if you’re so inclined. Unlike other robot swarm prototypes, they can be programmed en masse with an infrared controller and charged simply by moving in between a pair of conductive surfaces.
When price as falling under a certain point things will be available and even attractive to the masses. In this case the masses might be nerds trying to understand swarm behavior or maybe even develop swarm algorithms that might solve difficult problems. One step closer to engineering swarm behavior in a scale never seen before…

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