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The BORG lab is a joint lab between professors Tucker Balch, Frank Dellaert, and Thad Starner.

News

See our Biotracking "Dancing with Bees" appearances on CNN Headline News and CNN Next; overview of clips here.

Mission

Research by the BORG is focused on enabling large-scale physical multiagent systems, (including humans, robots and other automated systems), to collaborate effectively in dynamic, noisy and unknown environments. We are especially interested in the problems associated with making the most effective use of sensors distributed among collaborating agents.

The BORG

The BORG The concepts popularized by "the Borg" of Star Trek fame fictionalize many aspects of our research that we hope to make real -- don't worry though, we won't use our research for sinister purposes. Some of these concepts include: collective intelligence, whereby individuals using only local rules can combine to provide a more comprehensive intelligence; distributed sensing, whereby the observations of many individuals are fused to build an accurate model of the world; and human augmentation through wearable computers and sensors.