London: Soon, tiny robots would be performing tasks such as measuring pollution, extinguishing fire and delivering medicines into the body in a non-invasive way.
Engineers have developed a way of making hundreds of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using any memory or processing power.
The work paves the way for robot ‘swarms' to be used in, for example, the agricultural industry where precision-farming methods could benefit from the use of large numbers of very simple and cheap robots.
