Open-source micro-robotic project

his site 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 and more robots) to investigate artificial self-organization, emergent phenomena, control in large robotic groups and so on. This research is important to understand underlying principle of information and knowledge processing, adaptation and learning for the design and development of very limited autonomous systems. These systems represent the result of miniaturization processes in such fields as robotics, micro- and embedded controllers, sensor networks, non-destructing control, environmental monitoring, ubiquitous systems, medical and nano-technological research. Even today the autonomous micro-systems are of interest for entertaiment/toy industry.

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