Robotics Blog » swarm http://roboticsblog.org Robot and Electronics News Weblog Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:31:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 MIT’s Firefly Robots Create Floating 3D Display From Colored Micro Helicopters http://roboticsblog.org/2010/other-robots/mits-firefly-robots-create-floating-3d-display-from-colored-micro-helicopters/ http://roboticsblog.org/2010/other-robots/mits-firefly-robots-create-floating-3d-display-from-colored-micro-helicopters/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:52:19 +0000 Dan http://roboticsblog.org/?p=1150
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    • ]]>     MIT's Firefly Floating Helicopter

    MIT's Firefly Floating Helicopter


    What an awesome display of swarm robotics. These self-organizing micro-bots organize themselves and emit the correct colors to form a free-floating image in the sky.
    With a few hundred thousand of these you can create a fully immersive visual environment. Imagine watching a 3D 1080P movie with a few million of these surrounding you!

    3D Images From Firefly Free Floating Helicopter Display

    3D Images From Firefly Free Floating Helicopter Display

    The Flyfire canvas can transform itself from one shape to another or morph a two-dimensional photographic image into an articulated shape. The pixels are physically engaged in transitioning images from one state to another, which allows the Flyfire canvas to demonstrate a spatially animated viewing experience. Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space.

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    ]]>     http://roboticsblog.org/2010/other-robots/mits-firefly-robots-create-floating-3d-display-from-colored-micro-helicopters/feed/ 4     Robotic Gardening at MIT – New Robots take care of Tomato Plants http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/robotic-gardening-at-mit-new-robots-take-care-of-tomato-plants/ http://roboticsblog.org/2009/robotics-videos/robotic-gardening-at-mit-new-robots-take-care-of-tomato-plants/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:54:32 +0000 Dan http://www.roboticsblog.org/?p=54
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    • ]]>     Robots are tending to tomato plants at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Nikolaus Correll, an MIT postdoc, has made a robot fitted with a watering pump and programmed to tend to tomato plants grown in the MIT’s CSAIL.

    In the video above, the robots appear to be built on a modified Roomba with a long arm and water pump attached to a small water tank. When the plants signal for more water or nutrients, the robot receives their message and rolls over to service them.

    Agriculture needs swarm computing. The effectiveness of this type of swarm computing could be staggering. Imagine large orange groves being maintained autonomously by these types of swarm robots. Reduced manpower, accidents, lower cost of production, and higher output would revolutionize agriculture.

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