Picture a swarm of thousands of tiny robots deployed like insects, cleaning up a toxic waste site, burrowing through a wall to find survivors in a collapsed building or fanning out over miles to collect environmental data from a rainforest or a seascape.
These visions are a bit closer to reality. The K-Team Corporation, a Swiss company that manufactures robots, has licensed tiny robots called Kilobots from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, as well as the software controls the robot swarms. K-Team will manufacture the robots and provide them to people in higher education and research.
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