Funded by the European Commission, the Swarmanoid project is a Future and Emerging Technologies project. Comprised of dynamically connected, heterogenous, small autonomous robots, this research project aims at designing, implementing and controlling a novel distributed robotic system. These robots will collectively shape a swarmanoid, which will be made up of many (around sixty) autonomous robots of three kinds: hand-bots, foot-bots and eye-bots.
The Swarmanoid project will be based on the results generated at the time of the Swarm-bots project. The coordinator of the Swarmanoid project is Professor Marco Dorigo, who is also the co founder of the swarm robotics research fields and swarm intelligence.
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)