This project is still in its early stages, but the researchers hope to someday develop a swarm of robots that can create three-dimensional structures just like biological cells form into tissues ...

To better understand these phase separations, they developed computational models and a live tracking system for the 300-robot swarm using computer vision.

Teams of tiny robots and drones to the rescue: learn how to run physical experiments with dozens of robots working together to search, survey or deliver goods, autonomously.

It combines robotics, systems engineering, artificial intelligence, control theory, and biology to apply biologically inspired models of swarm behaviors to large networked groups of autonomous ...

Hundreds of tiny robots have been made to work as a team, inspired by the biological principles of self-organization. The study: Researchers have managed to get swarms of 300 robots to self ...

This could be handy in applications like swarm robotics or virtual cattle fencing. The project he demonstrates in the two videos ( below the break ) uses a pair of IR transmitters/receivers.