Loopy - A Robot Swarm or a Single Robot?

Loopy is a robotic swarm of 1- Degree of Freedom (DOF) agents (i.e., a closed-loop made of 36 Dynamixel servos). Each agent (servo) makes it's own local decisions based on interactions with its two neighbors.
In this video, Loopy is trying to go from an arbitrary initial shape to a goal shape (Flying WV).
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