What termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots w/Justin Werfel

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In this podcast, Justin Werfel talks about what termites can teach us about using autonomous swarms of robots.Termites have an amazing ability to create and maintain large, complicated structures with very limited capabilities.Justin talks about the opportunity to learn from the termites capability to create impressive structures and use that to create structures with autonomous swarms of robots. We get to hear about how the Termes project aims to learn from termites and build on their capabilities to create any desired structure.We also hear how Justin was drawn to robotics by the balance between theoretical and practical work.This podcast is part of the Wevolver network. Wevolver is a platform & community providing engineers informative content to help them innovate.Learn more at Wevolver.comPromote your company in our podcast?If you are interested in sponsoring the podcast, you can contact us at [email protected]

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Justin Werfel is a senior research scientist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where he works on topics in complex and emergent systems, including swarm robotics, termite behavior, engineered molecular nanosystems, and evolutionary theory. He lead s the Designing Emergence Laboratory, and works closely with a number of other collaborating labs.

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