Autonomous navigation of intelligent microrobotic swarms in unknown environments
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01252-6 An, Luo, Zhang and colleagues present Turbo, a transformer-based reinforcement learning framework that enables simulation-to-real transfer for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance
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Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01252-6 An, Luo, Zhang and colleagues present Turbo, a transformer-based reinforcement learning framework that enables simulation-to-real transfer for autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance in physical microrobotic swarms operating in unknown environments.
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