ROBOTIC GREY BOO: THE NEW INVENTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

WE All know about the artificial intelligence.
DEFINITION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE :

In Computer technology , artificial intelligence(AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by mashing , in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. Every day artificial intelligence gives us so many things. One of them is Robotic 'gray goo'

Robotic 'gray goo'

Researchers create new kind of robot compfosed of many simple particles with no centralized control or single point of failureResearchers have demonstrated for the first time a way to make a robot composed of many loosely coupled components, or 'particles.' Unlike swarm or modular robots, each component is simple, and has no individual address or identity. In their system, which the researchers call a 'particle robot,' each particle can perform only uniform volumetric oscillations (slightly expanding and contracting), but cannot move independently.

FOUNDER :Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT :Current robots are usually self-contained entities made of interdependent subcomponents, each with a specific function. If one part fails, the robot stops working. In robotic swarms, each robot is an independently functioning machine.

In a new study published today in Nature, researchers at Columbia Engineering and MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), demonstrate for the first time a way to make a robot composed of many loosely coupled components, or "particles." Unlike swarm or modular robots, each component is simple, and has no individual address or identity. In their system, which the researchers call a "particle robot," each particle can perform only uniform volumetric oscillations (slightly expanding and contracting), but cannot move independently.

Scientists discovered that when they grouped thousands of these particles together in a "sticky" cluster and made them oscillate in reaction to a light source, the entire particle robot slowly began to move forward, towards the light.

"You can think of our new robot as the proverbial "Gray Goo,". Scientists says". These robot has no single point of failure and no centralized control. It's still fairly primitive, but now we know that this fundamental robot paradigm is actually possible. We think it may even explain how groups of cells can move together, even though individual cells cannot."

Researchers have been building autonomous robots for more than a century, but these have been non-biological machines that cannot grow, heal, or recover from damage. The Columbia Engineering/MIT team has been focused on developing robust, scalable robots that can function even when individual components fail.

"We've been trying to fundamentally rethink our approach to robotics, to discover if there is a way to make robots differently," Not just make a robot look like a biological creature but actually construct it like a biological system, to create something that is vast in complexity and abilities yet composed of fundamentally simple parts."

FUTURE OF ROBOTIC GREY BOO:The team is already testing their system with a larger number of cm-scale particles. They are also exploring other forms of particle robots, such as vibrating microspeheres.

" it will be possible one day to make these kinds of robots from millions of tiny particles, like microbeads that respond to sound or light or chemical gradient. "Such robots could be used to do things like clean up areas or explore unknown terrains/structures."