How can cheap robots help build swarm AI apps?
Pobogot - An Open-Hardware Open-Source Low Cost Robot for Swarm Robotics
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This paper introduces Pogobot, a low-cost, open-source robot designed for swarm robotics research. It's highly customizable and features vibration or wheel-based locomotion, infrared communication, and various sensors.
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Pogobot's flexible programming (using a RISC-V softcore processor), modular design, and capacity for swarm communication (via infrared) make it a potential platform for experimenting with LLM-based multi-agent systems. The ability to program complex behaviors and the focus on inter-robot communication could facilitate the creation of physically embodied multi-agent systems governed by LLMs. The provided simulator also offers a virtual environment for prototyping such systems. While not explicitly mentioned, the Pogobot’s ability to receive environmental input (light sensors, IMU) could allow LLMs to react to physical world conditions.