01 April 2026
Swarm robotics is an appealing approach for education and experimentation: students can learn to program robots to perform individual tasks and also explore how groups of them can coordinate to collectively perform better. However, the deployment of a swarm robotics laboratory is often impractical for many institutions due to the cost of acquiring multiple robots and the necessary infrastructure.
To address this limitation, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol present ATRIZ: a remote and open laboratory for swarm robotics. ATRIZ is an accessible platform with a modular architecture that supports user management, experiment control, real-time video streaming, control scripts execution, and reports generation. Preliminary testing has shown ATRIZ’s reliability, security, and usability. The system is currently operational in a dedicated robotics classroom at Universidad de Nariño, Colombia, and is intended to enable regional institutions to access to swarm robotics infrastructure without the burden of developing it locally.
Read the paper in the link below.
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