Mobile robot algorithms and coordination have emerged as a central discipline in robotics research, combining computational theory, distributed algorithms, and systems engineering. These algorithms ...

Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized algorithms, in which each ...

As algorithms and robots start moving around in our world, who is responsible for their actions? Rose Eveleth reports In October of last year, an algorithm started to go shopping. It got $100 in ...