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[[Image:Sbots.jpg|thumb|S-bot mobile robot.]]

The '''s-bot''' is a small (15&nbsp;cm) [[Differential wheeled robot|differential wheeled]] (with additional [[Kégresse track|tracks]]) [[mobile robot]] developed at the LIS (Laboratory of Intelligent Systems<ref>{{cite [web|title=EPFL - LIS|url=http://lis.epfl.ch/]}}</ref>) at the [[EPFL]] in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]] between 2001 and 2004. Targeted to swarm robotics, a field of [[artificial intelligence]], it was developed within the Swarm-bots project, a Future and Emerging Technologies project coordinated by Prof. [[Marco Dorigo]]. Built by a small team of engineers ([[Francesco Mondada]], [[André Guignard]], [[Michael Bonani]] and [[Stéphane Magnenat]]) of the group of Prof. [[Dario Floreano]] and with the help of student projects, it is considered at the time of completion as one of the most complex and featured robots ever for its size. The s-bot was ranked on position 39 in the list of [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/robots.html “The 50 Best Robots Ever”] (fiction or real) by the [[Wired (magazine)|Wired magazine]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Capps|first1=Robert|title=The 50 Best Robots Ever|url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/robots.html|work=Wired|issue=14.01|date=January 2006}}</ref>

== Purpose and use of the s-bot ==

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== References ==

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* [[Francesco Mondada|Mondada, F.]], [[André Guignard|Guignard, A.]], [[Michael Bonani|Bonani, M.]], Bär, D., Lauria, M. and [[Dario Floreano|Floreano, D.]] (2003) '''SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation'''. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2003, IEEE Press. pp.&nbsp;1626–1631. [http://lis.epfl.ch/publications/856.pdf PDF] [http://lis.epfl.ch/bibtex.php?ID=364 BibTeX]

* [[Francesco Mondada|Mondada, F.]], Pettinaro, G. C., [[André Guignard|Guignard, A.]], Kwee, I., [[Dario Floreano|Floreano, D.]], Deneubourg, J.-L., Nolfi, S. and Gambardella, L.M., Dorigo, M. (2004) '''SWARM-BOT: a New Distributed Robotic Concept'''. Autonomous Robots, special Issue on Swarm Robotics, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, September - November 2004, Pages 193 - 221. [http://lis.epfl.ch/publications/swarmbot-hardware-final-lr.pdf PDF] [http://lis.epfl.ch/bibtex.php?ID=365 BibTeX]