Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The Year of CoCoRo 23/52: Based on the algorithm we have presented last week in "The Year of CoCoRo", we conducted a series of collective choice experiments with our Lily swarm robots in two distinct environments: Open field, which asked for choosing a global magnetic optimum over several local ones, and a T-Maze setup, which was offering only a binary choice. In all experimental settings the swarm reached a clear decision in favor of the global optimum. This ability of decision making is a property of the collective, not of the individual.
The Year of CoCoRo 23/52: Based on the algorithm we have presented last week in "The Year of CoCoRo", we conducted a series of collective choice experiments with our Lily swarm robots in two distinct environments: Open field, which asked for choosing a global magnetic optimum over several local ones, and a T-Maze setup, which was offering only a binary choice. In all experimental settings the swarm reached a clear decision in favor of the global optimum. This ability of decision making is a property of the collective, not of the individual.
