iRobot and Frontline Robotics are teaching robots how to work together.
The goal of iRobot's swarm project is to coordinate the actions of groups of hundreds of individual robots. A Swarm Operating System (SwarmOS) is under development to control as many as 10,000 robots or SwarmBots.
Credit: Courtesy of iRobot
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