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Why Robot Swarms Are Still Dumber Than a Beehive
Lucas and Luna examine why multi-robot coordination remains one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics. They break down the specific failure modes — from communication bandwidth limits in dense swarms to the computational cost of collision-free path planning for just 20 robots. Lucas contrasts the brute-force approach taken by Amazon's warehouse fleet (centralized orchestration) with the decentralized, insect-inspired strategies from academic labs like Harvard's Kilobot project. He cites a 2025 benchmark showing that a swarm of 50 ground robots achieves only 34 percent of…
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