Smart Cellular Bricks: Towards Collective Intelligence for the Physical World

Collections of hundreds of physical 3D cellular bricks, simple modular hardware units that run identical local Neural Cellular Automata without any global knowledge, collaboratively infer their overall shape class. （＊日本語は英文の後に） At Sakana AI, a recurring theme in our research is collective intelligence: the observation that sophisticated, robust behavior can arise from many simple parts following local rules, with no central controller, as it does in a colony, a tissue, or a brain. Until now, we have explored this idea in simulated systems, such as getting several frontier models to reason toge