Watch this terrifying video of a thousand-robot swarm

This video of a swarm of more than a thousand robots just came out, associated with a paper published in the journal Science. Lots of teeny robots, each not so smart but pretty intelligent as a team.

Read the press release or the paper for more.

Robot swarm 2

(Michael Rubenstein, Harvard University via YouTube)

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