The Swarmanoid developed by Dr. Marco Dorigo is an amazing demonstration of robotic teamwork. Swarmanoid uses a group of different robots to accomplish a goal, but the robots are divided into classes with separate skills. Their heterogenius makeup and redundant nature means that Swarmanoid is better suited to repetitive or distributed tasks more reliably than individual robots or even homogenius swarms.
There’s the spy, eye-bot, which can hover and attach to ceilings. Using its cameras, eye-bot tracks down the target and sends the intelligence to the rest of the team. With this information, rolling foot-bots create a ground-based network based off eye-bot intelligence. To complete their task, two foot-bots team up with a hand-bot — the sticky-fingered acrobat of the team. Together, the foot-bots carry the hand-bot into position, which climbs and grapples to obtain their goal.
"Swarmanoid is a heterogeneous robot swarm in which different groups of robots have different capabilities: some robots are specialized in manipulating objects and climbing, some in moving on the ground and transporting objects, and some in flying and observing the environment from above. This video presents the Swarmanoid project, a 4 year research project coordinated by Marco Dorigo and funded by the Commission of the European Union. More information at: Swarmanoid.org."
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