podcasts
NOT a swarm! with Chris Benson (Changelog & Friends #118)
Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson,... discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm!links:
- Practical AI
- Jeff Bezos takes Co-CEO role at Project Prometheus
- I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird.
- IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
- Swarm Robotics – Wikipedia
- Swarm Robotic Platforms – Wikipedia
- Swarm Intelligence – Wikipedia
- Ant Robotics – Wikipedia
- The Matter specifications
- Home Assistant – Open Source Home Automation
- The Besieged Fortress (2006)
- Programming Multiple Robots with ROS 2
- ROS 2 Multi-Robot Simulation Best Practices
- Hugging Face AI Agents Course
- Embassy – Embedded async framework for Rust
- Tokio – Asynchronous Runtime for Rust
- Beginner’s Guide to Self-Hosting Your Own AI
Key Attributes of Robotic Swarms
The design of swarm robotics systems is guided by swarm intelligence principles, which promote fault tolerance, scalability, and flexibility.[1] Unlike distributed robotic systems in general, swarm robotics emphasizes a large number of robots. While various formulations of swarm intelligence principles exist, one widely recognized set includes:
