The Why
Robotics in everyday society is getting more complex. Due to the large amounts of information robots can process, online algorithms used by large companies are no longer understandeable. Companies like Facebook and Google are very secretive about these algorithms. As a team, we aim to make robotics accesible and understandeable again, by looking at nature! We can interact with animals, live together with them and usually understand why they act as they do. Still, the cooperation we see amongst animals is incredibly complex. Many simple individuals make up a collective that can perform great things! At Zebro, we hope to do the same with our robots. To make them understandeable, to make them simple, and yet to be able to perform valuable missions
Swarms in nature
Animals naturally cooperate. They do this without a leader giving directions: everything happens in a decentralized way. This allows animals to survive through the ages, being flexible and adapting to changing circumstances. Robots are often programmed for one specific situation, and if the variables change, the robot is not capable of adapting.
Most animals share simple rules: explore, but keep contact with the rest of the swarm. If you find something useful, like food, communicate this to the rest. And always be able to find home again. These simple reules,
when implemented in robotics, will allow large groups of robots to explore area's of land autonomously.
This can be incredible valueable, as will be discussed in the next slide
