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General collective intelligence for multi-robot systems

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Enhancing the generality of multi-robot systems is critical for their deployment in open-world applications. Achieving this will require the development of general collective intelligence.

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Fig. 1: Description, paradigms and methodologies for GCI.
Fig. 2: Building a multi-robot system with GCI.

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This work was supported by the Brain Science and Brain-like Intelligence Technology-National Science and Technology Major Project (grant no. 2022ZD0208800) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 62473320).

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  2. Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

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Zhao, S. General collective intelligence for multi-robot systems. Nat Electron 9, 11–13 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-025-01558-0

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