What is it about?
Robots in a swarm combine their eyes and brains, forming a single entity ("group mind"). The group mind makes decisions about what the swarm should do, based on what it sees in the world. Once the group mind makes a decision, it dissolves back into a collection of individual robots. Each robot remembers the decision made by the group mind and acts accordingly.
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Why is it important?
This is a proof of concept that a bunch of robots can collectively form a group mind (a distributed artificial neural network where each robot contributes a few neurons), and that this enables the swarm to choose what behavior it should perform based on what it sees in the environment.
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This page is a summary of: An emergent group mind across a swarm of robots: Collective cognition and distributed sensing via a shared wireless neural network, The International Journal of Robotics Research, July 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0278364918779704.
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