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The possibilities for robotic teams

Robot teams will be essential for solving certain complex tasks. So, where might you encounter robot teams in the future? In this step, we look at some of the future …

Team work and swarms

Swarm robotics provides another mechanism for the coordination of multi-robot systems. In robot swarms, a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with …

Game theory

Robots of the future will need to work in teams to accomplish tasks. However, effective teamwork will require coordination among the robots – game theory is one way to provide …

Robot-robot team: cooperative games

As we saw in the last step, in a human-robot team, the robot knows how to act because the human controller is telling it what to do. However, in a …

Human-robot team: a robot assisted surgery

The Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield is home to one of the world’s most advanced medical robots: The daVinci Si. In this video, Urological surgeon David Yates discusses his working …