European researchers have designed robots that react to one another in ways that resemble the actions of mammals.
The University of Southampton's Klaus-Peter Zauner heads a project to develop robots that learn tasks and carry them out by communicating with one another.
Christos Ampatzis of the European Commission-sponsored Swarm-bots project has helped build robots that act together to carry objects and form building blocks.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7548190.stm