swarm robot construction

Caption:Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. The new system involves large, usable structures built from an array of tiny identical subunits called voxels (the volumetric equivalent of a 2-D pixel). Credits:Courtesy of the researchers
Progress toward groups of robots that could build almost anything, including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots