Robots inspired by termite castles rise up without or foreman

Unlike human cathedrals raise their termite termites without an overall site plan and building a hierarchy. And one of the towers of their nests are 500 times larger than insects that rise. Inspired by their collective intelligence, some American engineers have designed robots that can build towers, pyramids and autonomous way.

As EsMateria published , termites and other social insects such as bees , wasps and ants cooperate following his own version of think globally, act locally. They are capable of operating in a decentralized manner and reacting to changes in their immediate environment to build their nests. Among the first found some termite cathedrals with an occupancy of 1,000 m3 . It is what the French entomologist Pierre -Paul Grasse called stigmergy , a form of collaboration based on a few implicit rules (which may be chemical signals such as pheromones , temperature changes or small changes in the physical environment ) .

Following the model of decentralized collective action , researchers from two institutes at Harvard University have created their Termes robots . Equipped with a series of sensors to detect its environment or the presence of other robots, engineers recorded their final image of the structure they wanted and some basic rules of behavior : take a brick, detect the nearest hollow scalar individually or stop at the approach of another robot and little else. Through a series of algorithms themselves could raise several stable structures without it degenerating into a jam that robot .

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