The public reactions on "Give Me Satisfaction" or "Nipplegate" - everybody knows them, the waves of excitement that rush across our community. In this video of Manfred Hartbauer you see waves of excitement that propagate through a robot swarm (as learned from a locust society). A self appointing "initiator" cries loud "Chirp". The next one answers with "Chirp!", because this cannot be left uncommented - and immediately a wave of excitement propagates through the community. Last but not least the whole thing falls flat and all wait eagerly, until a neighbour cries out in excitement again.
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Details: Model calculation of the wave-like propagation of avtivity in a robot swarm: the simulation uses a mathematical description of the propagation of excitement as can be observed in locust societies of Mecopoda elongata (chirp avtivity, not sound waves!).