Artificial Emergence

Brooklyn Artist and inventor Heather Dewey-Hagborg explains her recent project on "Emergence," the principal where the acts of the group or flock are undeterminable by the actions of an individual within the group. Heather made 10 autonomous robots and gave them a few simple instructions such as "seek light" and "avoid obsticles" and observed how the simple robots seemed to form complex anthropomorphic relatinships with one another, without communicating. you can see her site and watch the video or watch a shorter version on you tube