The term 'robot swarm' is primarily found in the fields of robotics, automation, and Industry and Factory 4.0. A robot swarm refers to a group of many individual robots that are networked together and coordinate themselves. They work together as a team, often modelled on ants or bees in nature.
Each robot in the swarm has a simple task and can act independently. Complex capabilities only emerge through collaboration within the swarm. The robots communicate with each other, share information, and adapt their behaviour to one another. This makes the robot swarm particularly flexible, efficient, and fault-tolerant: if one robot fails, the others take over its work.
A vivid example: In a large warehouse, 100 small robots could sort and transport goods together. They decide for themselves who takes on which task and constantly adapt to new situations. This allows the entire system to work faster, more efficiently, and more cost-effectively than a single large central machine.
Robot swarms are therefore an important step in automation and offer exciting opportunities for companies looking to future-proof their operations.
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