The spec says that at most three other Bluetooth units may be connected to each NXT unit for any given program, but with proper setup one unit could act as a message-passing server for all the others in a swarm, or a simple broadcast relay protocol (...) (18 years ago, 11-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
I'm interested in trying some experiments in (URL) swarm robotics>. The basic idea is that simple robots with simple programming can behave in complex ways, provided that there are 1.) a lot of them, and 2.) they can communicate locally in some (...) (18 years ago, 8-Aug-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX) !
