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The Kilobot is a low-cost robot designed to make testing collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots accessible to robotics researchers. This video describes the features of the Kilobot robot and how they can be controlled in a group.

This video demonstrates some of the capabilities of the Kilobot such as: communication, distance sensing, locomotion, and on-board computation. All demonstrations are fully autonomous, without any human controlling the robots.

This video shows a Kilobot collective of up to 29 robot demonstrating some popular collective behaviors such as follow-the-leader and foraging.

Engineering self-adaptive modular robots: A bioinspired approach

Robots obtain material and use it to build an artificial ribcage.

This self-balancing table is composed of 12 independent, identically programmed “modules,” which cooperate through local communication.