Contents
20 January 2021
Vol 6, Issue 50
Vol 6, Issue 50
Focus
- A 3D underwater robotic collective called Blueswarm
A swarm of agile fish robots uses vision-based implicit coordination to demonstrate self-organizing behaviors in a laboratory tank.
- Collaborating robots sample the primary production in the ocean
Sampling of genetic material from phytoplankton in open-ocean eddies becomes more precise and efficient using a heterogeneous network of autonomous marine robots.
- Bringing the light inside the body to perform better surgery
Miniaturized robotic laser steering opens new horizons for laser microsurgery.
Research Articles
- Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm
Blueswarm is a 3D underwater collective that uses only local implicit vision-based coordination to self-organize.
- A system of coordinated autonomous robots for Lagrangian studies of microbes in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum
A team of coordinated robots autonomously observed and sampled open-ocean microbial communities in a Lagrangian mode.
- Microrobotic laser steering for minimally invasive surgery
Advances in microrobotic design, fabrication, and control enable the dexterous control of a laser in a millimeter-sized package.
About The Cover
ONLINE COVER Go Fish! Colonies of insects, flocks of birds, and schools of fish are able to produce complex global behaviors through simple local interactions. Inspired by nature, Berlinger et al. achieve complex 3D collective behavior with fish-inspired robots called Bluebots. Using implicit vision-based coordination, a swarming school of Bluebots, called Blueswarm, demonstrated synchrony, aggregation-dispersion, dynamic circle formation, and search-capture behaviors. This month's cover is a composite photograph of a Blueswarm (see also the Focus by Wolek et al.) [IMAGE CREDIT: FLORIAN BERLINGER]
