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Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter – EurekAlert
Researchers have proposed a new principle by which active matter systems can spontaneously order, without need for higher level instructions or even programmed…

IMAGE: When a swarm of smarticles is made to interact in a confined space, they form stunningly symmetric dances whose choreography emerges spontaneously from the physics of low rattling.
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Credit: Thomas A. Berrueta
Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering.
In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles…
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