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  • Collective Intelligence
  • Soft Robotics

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  • Automated robots in uncontrolled environments require adaptive behaviors.
  • Large robot collectives can exhibit emergent robustness and adaptability from simple rules.
  • Scalability of robot collectives is often limited by the cost of individual units.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Linbots, a novel soft modular robot designed for manufacturability.
  • To demonstrate the capability of Linbot collectives to perform complex tasks in a scalable, distributed manner.
  • To explore reconfiguration and adaptation of robot collectives for new tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Designed Linbots with multifunctional voice coils for actuation, audio output, and touch sensing.
  • Enabled Linbots to communicate with neighbors for isolated behavior and information propagation.
  • Utilized collectives of Linbots to perform tasks through collective peristalsis and distributed sorting.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated complex task performance in a scalable, distributed manner using Linbot collectives.
  • Showcased object transport via collective peristalsis.
  • Successfully implemented object sorting using a two-dimensional Linbot array.

Conclusions:

  • Linbots offer a manufacturable solution for creating large, adaptive robot collectives.
  • Collective behavior in Linbots enables robust and scalable task execution.
  • The modular and communicative nature of Linbots facilitates adaptation to new challenges.