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Tiny Kilobots to go on sale (Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine)

Do you think that you'll never be able to afford a robot of your own that
isn't a toy? Well, if you can get Swiss robot-maker K-Team Corporation to sell
you one, chances are you can easily afford a Kilobot - perhaps even a whole
bunch of them. Designed and first built by Harvard University's Self-
Organizing Systems Research Group, the three-legged robots aren't much larger
than the 3.4-volt button cell batteries that power them, and move by vibrating
across smooth, flat surfaces. They were created to study robotic swarming
behavior, with the intention that tens, hundreds or even thousands of them
could be used simultaneously in one experiment. Harvard has just announced
that it has licensed the Kilobot technology to K-Team, which will commercially
manufacture the robots so that other groups and institutions can purchase them
for their own research... Continue Reading Tiny Kilobots to go on sale

**Section:** Robotics

**Tags:** Autonomous, Cooperation, Harvard, Robots

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