Complex Design by Simple Robots: A Collective Embodied Intelligence Approach to Construction. (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Petersen, Kirstin; Nagpal, Radhika
• Other Names: Tibbits Skylar guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 87:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 44
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences -- Cambridge -- Massachusetts -- Kilobots project -- Termes project -- Amorphous Ramp Construction project -- Nils Napp -- Swarmbot Assemblages -- Smart Geometry Workshop -- Gothenburg -- David Andreén -- Petra Jennings; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2194
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Nature's builders – from termites to beavers – offer a model of collective intelligence that can inspire robotic construction. Kirstin Petersen, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and Radhika Nagpal, Professor in Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, describe several recent projects in this field that they have been involved in, both separately and collaboratively.