“Robot Swarms Are Colonizing the Lagoon of Venice: We’re 'Trying to Establish a Robotic Society”
Would you dive into a body of water populated by about 150 robots? That’s what could happen if you were to fall off a “gondola” in the Venice lagoon, where scientists from an initiative of seven European research institutes, are giving birth to the world’s largest population of autonomous robots.
“We’re actually trying to establish a robotic society”, says Thomas Schmickl, head of the artificial intelligence Lab of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria, which is coordinating the study. “Our robots would not just carry out operations for which they are programmed or trained, but they would also develop social skills, learning how to communicate and interact with other robots, as well as with the surrounding environment.”
At an intermediate depths, the aFish (artificial fish) swim in the water and exchange data and information with mussels and aPads (artificial lily pads), flat floating devices on the surface of the water, which act as the main points of contact with the human world, aside from providing energy to the entire system.
Erich Prem, FEAT coordinator, explains the idea behind FEAT and the project’s aims
Credit: FEAT
To build an underwater robotic society, the researchers are busy with several technical challenges, like developing novel sensors, new bio-inspired algorithms simulating the structure of hives, under the water, and energy harvesting in aquatic environments.
Systems like the one being tested by Subcultron could help improve the ability to obtain and process data for environmental monitoring.
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Venice’s lagoon from the reports of my grandfather who visited as part of the 8th army was sitting on an open sewer, apparently nothing has changed in the last 60 or so years – Leonardo da Vinci designed the cities foundations, but was left out of the cloaca design which in his day was a chamber-pot though the window. Perhaps Venice was fortunate in that it was not the first city in the world designed with throwing feces out to sea with Leonardo’s every growing number of catapults.
Just passing through the motions