The term robot swarm is particularly at home in the fields of robotics, automation, industry and Factory 4.0. A robot swarm refers to a group of many individual robots that are networked with each other and coordinate together. They work together like 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 cooperation within the swarm. The robots communicate with each other, share information and adapt their behaviour to each other. This makes the robot swarm particularly flexible, efficient and fault-tolerant: if one robot fails, the others take over its work.
An illustrative 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 large centralised machine.
Robot swarms are therefore an important step in automation and offer exciting opportunities for companies that want to future-proof their processes.
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