Talking Robots: José Halloy - Social Cockroach Robots

In this episode we talk to José Halloy who is researcher at the Unit of Social Ecology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He presents the work done in the scope of the LEURRE project on the self-organization of hybrid groups of animals and artificial artifacts. Recently presented in one of the most renowned journals "Science", Halloy describes how insect-like robots can influence a group of cockroaches into collectively selecting a light shelter instead of the dark one they usually crave. A splash of perfume and a good behavioral model is what it takes to interact with what Maeterlinck called the "mind of the hive" or in this case, the collective intelligence of the cockroach society.

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Talking Robots: José Halloy - Social Cockroach Robots is an episode from Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence by Talking Robots.

This episode is 22:51 long.

This episode was published on Dec 21, 2007.

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