Singapore's future robot armies?

SpaceDaily.com reports that engineers in Singapore are working on robots that can cooperate on the battlefield, exhibiting "swarming" behavior:

Learning from bees and ants, researchers at DSO National Laboratories (DSO) are figuring out how they can send a swarm of robots to the battlefield.

Starting with teaching two or three unmanned vehicles to work together, they are scaling up their work on artificial intelligence (AI) software to send a large group of robots towards the enemy.

Dr How Khee Yin, 44, head of the Centre for Decision Support at DSO, envisions the day when dozens of robots could be sent into harm's way 'in a swarm'.

He said: 'We're learning from bees and ants. How they work as a team. It's very much a growing area of research.'