Advantages Of Swarm Robotics

A system’s self-organizing facade oftentimes disguises its ulterior motive of self-preservation as a form of emergent behavior. In Johnson’s essay, he observes an ant colony that appears to think and function in a nonhierarchial, self-organizing format to serve their queen ant. However, the colony functions in a genetically-coordinated fashion, “Their genes instruct them to protect their mother, the

In the beginning, Gillis gives his readers an example of what technology could do by making a direct comparison to the gathering techniques of ants. In their natural state of picking up leftovers on a patio is what Gillis called “a marvel of low-tech efficiency” (Gillis, as cited in McWhorter, 2015, p. 478). Therefore, Gillis then explains how this natural phenomenon impacted the ideas of scientist and this starts a development throughout the text of how scientist begun to delve deeper into this idea of robotics. Gillis chronologically gives the ideas expressed in the text, for example in the beginning of the text he goes from the idea of ants to the implementation of ant-like robots. Gillis also keeps his tone more toward how it can impact or “improve” societal ways than the true technological advancements it makes for the scientific world. For example, Gillis states how the swarm robots can take on tasks that humans would want to “forego” as in “cleaning a banquet hall. Or mining a coal face.” ,(Gillis as cited in McWhorter, 2015, p. 478)

Military robots - Robots used in the military. This type of robots includes bomb disposal robots, different transportation robots, reconnaissance drones. Often robots initially created for military purposes can be used in law enforcement, search and rescue and other related

Social abilities include social strategizing or pair-holding (Byrne R, Whiten A. 1988, Shultz S, Dunbar RIM. 2007, 2010), while ecological skills include spatial orientation to discover sustenance patches or recollect their area, dietary adaptability, food processing, instrument use, extractive searching (Byrne R. 1997, Gibson K. 1986), or predator acknowledgment and evasion, (Zuberbuhler K, Byrne R.

Unlike the article the scientific journal talks about the value of the rescuing behavior, the real component of hormones, and the focus of the behavior. The article does mention the word hormone as being a possible factor in why they are “rescuing” their fellow species but doesn’t say anything else. Within this article, I also see a hint of anthropomorphism when they compare these ants to something a solider in a war would do. They also talk about the empathy that these ants may be having for those ants who have been hurt during the hunt. I would also really like to see the interview that they had with the main researcher because it appears they must have cut a lot of stuff out. These are just a few of the many problems that I had when comparing these two

Social behaviour is defined by interaction, not by how organisms are distributed in space. Clumping of individuals is not a requirement for social behaviour, although it does increase opportunities for interaction. When a lone female moth emits a bouquet of pheromones to attract male potential mates, she is engaging in social behaviour. When a male red deer ... (100 of 19962 words)

While both articles are good examples of mutualism, the teamwork the trees and ants have is more beneficial. According to the first article, Acacias trees provide a home for the ants, and the ants serve as effective defenders. Without each other, they are less able to defend themselves. Without a home and additional defenses they are more likely to die than the birds and rhinos.

Paul Marks provides the reader with information on what technologies are planned and already created. He explains the purpose of these highly developed robots and where the military plans to put them

The robots involved in recent competitions all failed at completing the tasks assigned to them. The most successful of the robots was a South Korean robot put together by Team KAIST. Yet even this robot showed that it was slow going for any robot to do any of the tasks DARPA was looking for the robots to complete. The Team KAIST robot took almost an hour to complete the tasks assigned to it. In less than one-twentieth of that time, a human team of operators could have completed the tasks the robot was asked to do. So while at the present battlefield robotics is in its infancy, DARPA and the US military-industrial complex that highly favors technical gadgetry are looking for ways to bring more robots to the field of battle in the coming years.

In this study, scientist tested the intelligence of bees and their ability to learn and teach learned skills to other members in colony. For the experiment scientist presented bees with a blue flower tied to a string at varying lengths under a table. That table was placed under a Plexiglas case. The scientist then introduced 40 bees into the environment, and 23 bees out of 40 successfully were able to be trained in a step-like manner on how to pull the string to get to the flower. In another case, the scientist took another group of bees and gave that group the opportunity to learn the skill on their own; however, only 2 out of 110 bees were able to learn the skill, which told scientist that the occurrence is rare. After that, the scientist allowed for naïve bees to observe the trained bees, and 60 percent of the naïve bees who watched were able to successfully learn the skill. Those trained bees were then placed into a colony, and the scientist were able to observe the technique successfully spread within the hive. With these results, scientist found that with the appropriate social and ecological conditions present, the culture of an organism can be changed with simple forms of education. Thus, cultural exchange does not require a high level of sophistication and humans aren’t the only organisms who display this

It may seem odd for non-human forms of life to form groups or cliques seeing to as it is a human trait,but some species of animals actually do form cliques instinctively.Baboons and fish form social groups between each other.Experiments were tested to prove that “baboon clique” idea was accurate.The test began by setting out food likes bread rolls and hard boiled eggs on the edge of trails the animals frequently journeyed to.The researchers kept up with time it took different animals to explore close enough to check out the new foods and another for ones that had the courage to taste them. As expected, the curious set of baboons all belonged to the same group. What caught the eye of the scientists is that gender was not a factor. The monkeys

Within social species goal emulation allows observing individuals to understand the specific behaviours exhibited by the demonstrator. The observation allows the individual to use the environment to fulfil their goal, although they may apply a different technique but produce the same outcome (Hoppitt and Laland,

A PId Control can be used to program the Assembly robots. The sensors on the robot can read its surroundings and figure out what it needs to do and where an item is located. So the Assembly robots can adjust if there is a minor change for example a metal bar was located a few inches from where it should be it can easily respond to this instead of just trying to pick up something that is not there. We do this by adding a control loop feedback mechanism. This saves a lot of time and effort for the programmers. Almost every manufacturing line has some type of robot that they use to be able to produce products faster and easily. These types of robots are good for a repeated task that humans would get tired of doing and start to make mistakes. The robot decreases or eliminates the mistakes that a human will make on a repeated task. Some products that are made with assembly robots are Cars, Ships, Toys, and some engine parts. Researchers are still experimenting with robots hoping to improve them and make them more efficient and reliable the future of robots is unpredictable you never know what someone may

As seen in Catherine Hobaiter article there many forms of social learning that can occur in species such as chimpanzees. It was found that within a group of chimps younger individuals learned how to use moss sponging from older individual within their tribe (Hobaiter, 2014). This allowed them to absorb water and drink the contents from the sponge. This technique was useful for the chimps to learn because this allowed them to gather and drink water reliably in the wild. This example also shows us how

Animals often exhibit uniform dispersion as a result of antagonistic social interactions, such as territoriality—the defense of a bounded physical space against encroachment by other individuals