robotics

subCULTron

subCULTron: Submarine cultures perform long- term robotic exploration of unconventional environmental niches Project description information from the official web site subCULTron Information from CORDIS The aim of subCULTron project is achieving long-term autonomy in a learning, self-regulating, self-sustaining underwater society/culture of robots in a high-impact application area: Venice, Italy. On the sea-ground, artificial mussels are […]

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Swarmrobot

Swarmrobot: Open-source micro-robotic project This project is devoted to development of the open-source hardware and software micro-robotic platform in the size of less-then-3cm-cube. The main goal of this project is to develop a cheap, reliable and swarm-capable micro-robot that can be easily reproduced even at home. This robot allows building a large-scale swarm system (100

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Assisi|bf

Assisi|bf: Animal and robot Societies Self-organise and Integrate by Social Interaction Description CORDIS information The aim of ASSISI_bf is to develop (1) a fundamental new class of distributed ICT systems, which are bio-hybrid collective adaptive systems (CASs) that consist of two sub-systems: One is a self-organising society of animals; the other one is a society

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FloraRobotica

FloraRobotica: Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids as Social Architectural Artifacts information from the official web site floraRobotica CONDIS information The project’s objective is to develop and investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials of a plant-robot society able to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces. flora robotica responds to the work-programme theme ‘Knowing,

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