article_snippet: However, Researchers ability to search collectively did not go perfectly as Researchers tumbled and fell while trying to explore.
article_snippet: These flexible principles could be adapted to instruct robots to work together in the same way, for tasks like searching a burning building.
article_snippet: A control experiment was carried out on Earth, and the results - perhaps unsurprisingly - showed that those on the ground were much better at searching than those in space.
article_snippet: Data gathered from this study may help with algorithms for robotics on Earth.