On Monday 14th March, 2016 starting at 7pm.

Dr. Richard Crowder from Southampton University, Department of Computing and Electronic Engineering, will be talking about ‘Termites, Bees and Robots.’

Over the last ten years the direction of robotics research has changed significantly, the trend is to exploit biological inspiration to inform the design and applications.

Many early robots tended to have as anthropomorphic configurations, including multi-fingered grippers. However, the development of swarm robotics has allowed us to develop strategies that allows us to explore how bees forage or termites build their nests.

Richard will bring a number of swarm robots, so that the audience can see real hardware.