In this episode of “Talking Robots” Marco Dorigo discusses his research in swarm robotics and swarm intelligence, and gives his views on the goals that should be targeted in these young disciplines as well as the challenges that researchers in these fields will face.

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• Robots: Demonstrations at IROS -- 21 October, 2011
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• Robots: Multi-Robot Teams -- 31 December, 2010