Centibots

Centirobots, or simply centibots, were robots created around 2003 and designed to coordinate in large numbers in order to achieve a single goal, an early example of swarm robotics. The $2.2 million project was sponsored by DARPA and had principal investigator SRI International along with other investigators University of Washington's Robotics and State Estimation Lab, Stanford University and ActivMedia Robotics.[1][2][3] SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center was known for previous work in robotics, in particular Shakey the robot and related research.

Centibots
Centibots in 2003
ManufacturerSRI International
Year of creation2003
Derived fromActivMedia Robotics Amigobots
Websitewww.ai.sri.com/centibots/

There were a total of 100 robots, 80 of which were ActivMedia Robotics Amigobots and the remaining 20 were ActivMedia Pioneer 2 AT bots.[4][5] The robots were used to map out an area or locate an object of interest.[4][6][7]

References
  1. "Centibots Project Home Page". SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center.
  2. "Centibots: The 100 Robots Project". University of Washington Robotics and State Estimation Lab. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  3. Ackerman, Elise (2004-01-13). "Army of robots drills for new military project". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  4. "Watch out, the Centibots are invading LinuxWorld". Linux for Devices. 2003-07-30. Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  5. "Centibots 100-Robot Collaborative Reconnaissance Project". ActivMedia Robotics. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  6. D. Fox; J. Ko; K. Konolige; B. Limketkai; D. Schulz & B. Stewart (2005). "Distributed Multi-Robot Exploration and Mapping". The 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV'05). University of Washington Robotics and State Estimation Lab. pp. xv. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.132.1047. doi:10.1109/CRV.2005.36. ISBN 978-0-7695-2319-4. Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
  7. Ackerman, Elise (2004-01-16). "Army of robots drills for military project". The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 2005-02-14. Retrieved 2012-07-29.
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