Rubenstein, MichaelNagpal, Radhika2011-12-202010Rubenstein, Michael and Radhika Nagpal. 2010. Kilobot: A Robotic Module for Demonstrating Behaviors in a Large Scale (\(2^{10}\) Units) Collective. In Proceedings of the IEEE 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop, Modular Robotics: State of the Art, Anchorage, Alaska, May 3, 2010, ed. Kasper Stoy, Radhika Nagpal and Wei-Min Shen, 47-51. http://modular.mmmi.sdu.dk/icra10workshop/papers/modular-robots-icra2010-workshop.pdf. (accessed 04 December 2011).http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5504015A collective of robots can together complete a task that is beyond the capabilities of any of its individual robots. One property of a robotic collective that allows it to complete such a task is the shape of the collective. This paper presents Kilobot, a simple modular robot designed to work in a collective to self-assemble and self-heal that collective’s shape. In previous work, an algorithm is given that allows a simulated collective of robots to self-assemble and self-heal a desired shape, keeping the shape sized proportional to the number of robots in the collective. In this abstract, the current work of producing a robotic collective that can demonstrate that algorithm is presented.en-USMonograph or Book2011-12-20