Different diameters of cargo loading and transport by single and swarm transporters (VIDEO)

Hokkaido University

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Different diameters of cargo loading and transport by single (top) and swarm (bottom) transporters. Scale bar: 20 µm. The diameter of the cargo (d) is mentioned on the top left of each movie. Here, the swarms could load and transport cargoes with diameters up to 20.0 µm, whereas the single transporters failed to load and transport cargoes with a diameter larger than 3.4 µm. The movie is played at 100 times the speed of the original (Mousumi Akter, et al. Science Robotics. April 20, 2022).

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Mousumi Akter, et al. Science Robotics. April 20, 2022

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