Applications
Swarm Robotics
Swarm robotics is the coordination of large numbers of relatively simple robots through decentralized, local interactions, drawing on collective behaviors of social insects such as stigmergy and flocking. Desired global behavior — aggregation, formation, collective transport, area coverage — emerges without central control, conferring scalability and fault tolerance. Harvard's Kilobot project, which demonstrated programmable self-assembly with 1,024 robots, is a landmark experiment.
Why it matters for physical AI
Fleet-scale deployment raises swarm questions even for sophisticated robots: decentralized coordination, communication limits, and graceful degradation matter whenever many machines share a warehouse or field.
Build physical AI
Put these concepts to work on real hardware
Axol is a dual-arm robot built for physical AI — teleoperate it, collect demonstrations, and deploy learned policies out of the box.