Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot, moving en masse, or
A flock of auklets exhibit swarm behaviour
Flocking birds are an example of self-organization in biology
Bees swarming on a tree
A 19th century depiction of a swarm of desert locusts
Swarm robotics is the study of how to design independent systems of robots without centralized control. The emerging swarming behavior of robotic swarms is created through the interactions between ind
Swarm behaviour
…self-propelled the way most animals are. By extension, the term "swarm" is applied also to inanimate entities which exhibit parallel behaviours, as in a robot swarm, an earthquake swarm or a star swarm. From a more abstract point of view, swarm behaviour is the collective motion of a large number of self-propelled…
Swarm of open-source Jasmine micro-robots recharging themselves
A team of iRobot Create robots at the Georgia Institute of Technology