Producing a “swarm” effect in robotics or getting multiple machines to work with each other does not come cheap, until this team from Southampton found a way of making them for just £25 per machine.
Getting a bunch of robots to collaborate with one another or “swarm” as the Tefal heads like to call it is no mean feat, so when the Technische Universität Berlin managed it with three helicopters a cheer went up around robot world.