{"id":213695,"date":"2025-05-09T21:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-build-next-gen-swarm-robots-using-simple-linked-particles"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:17:11","slug":"researchers-build-next-gen-swarm-robots-using-simple-linked-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-build-next-gen-swarm-robots-using-simple-linked-particles","title":{"rendered":"Researchers build next-gen swarm robots using simple linked particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-build-next-gen-swarm-robots-using-simple-linked-particles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A joint research team from Seoul National University and Harvard University has developed a next-generation swarm robot system inspired by nature\u2014capable of movement, exploration, transport, and cooperation, all without the need for precise sensors or centralized control.<\/p>\n<p>The study was led by Professor Ho-Young Kim, Dr. Kyungmin Son, and master\u2019s student Kwanwoo Kim at SNU\u2019s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor L. Mahadevan and Dr. Kimberly Bowal at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Their approach connects simple, active particles into chain-like structures that can carry out complex tasks without any advanced programming or artificial intelligence. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adu8326\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint research team from Seoul National University and Harvard University has developed a next-generation swarm robot system inspired by nature\u2014capable of movement, exploration, transport, and cooperation, all without the need for precise sensors or centralized control. The study was led by Professor Ho-Young Kim, Dr. Kyungmin Son, and master\u2019s student Kwanwoo Kim at SNU\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}