{"id":220006,"date":"2025-08-13T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-robots-use-sound-to-self-organize-into-intelligent-groups"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:18:09","slug":"tiny-robots-use-sound-to-self-organize-into-intelligent-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/tiny-robots-use-sound-to-self-organize-into-intelligent-groups","title":{"rendered":"Tiny robots use sound to self-organize into intelligent groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45Ysoiup4Ro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists has taken a page from nature\u2019s playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound waves to coordinate into large swarms that exhibit intelligent-like behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The robot groups could one day carry out complex tasks like exploring disaster zones, cleaning up pollution, or performing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/medical+treatments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical treatments<\/a> from inside the body, according to team lead Igor Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mathematics at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicture swarms of bees or midges,\u201d Aronson said. \u201cThey move, that creates sound, and the sound keeps them cohesive, many individuals acting as one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of scientists has taken a page from nature\u2019s playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound waves to coordinate into large swarms that exhibit intelligent-like behavior. The robot groups could one day carry out complex tasks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220006","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}