Issue Making swarm behaviour legible by modelling it on human dynamics

Summary

Swarm robots are decentralised machines that organise themselves in ways inspired by natural swarms such as bees, fish and birds. The technology has advanced considerably, yet no commercial deployment exists so far. Two obstacles stand in the way, namely regulation and the difficulty of trusting swarm systems whose behaviour, especially their collective decisions, is hard to predict. The proposed remedy is to base swarm behaviour on simple, reproducible principles that emulate the dynamics of human behaviour. Swarms designed this way could become more interpretable and therefore more trustworthy to the people who must approve and work alongside them.