{"id":197639,"date":"2026-03-20T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T12:05:15","slug":"a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Swarm AI Project Takes on Safety at Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.upenn.edu\/stories\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/\">A New Swarm AI Project Takes on Safety at Scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seas.upenn.edu\/stories\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/\">https:\/\/www.seas.upenn.edu\/stories\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 08:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.seas.upenn.edu\">www.seas.upenn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penn Engineers are exploring the use of swarm AI in international collaboration, led by Professor Rahul Mangharam.<\/li>\n<li>The project, Swarm AI, focuses on how large teams of physical AI agents can cooperate, compete, and act safely.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike digital AI, physical agents must navigate real-world constraints such as physics laws and limited resources.<\/li>\n<li>The research examines how robots can effectively coordinate and make decisions without centralized management.<\/li>\n<li>Emphasis is on neurosymbolic AI, which merges neural networks with essential human-encoded knowledge for operational success.<\/li>\n<li>Safety is a primary design principle integrated into the algorithms to prevent hazardous interactions.<\/li>\n<li>The project involves universities in the US and Singapore, focusing on large physical demonstrations, algorithmic advances, and safe distributed decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>Mangharam highlights that the potential applications could address real-world issues such as natural disasters, transportation, and infrastructure failures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Swarm AI Project Takes on Safety at Scale https:\/\/www.seas.upenn.edu\/stories\/a-new-swarm-ai-project-takes-on-safety-at-scale\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-20 08:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.seas.upenn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Mangharam_Zheng-7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197641,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197639\/revisions\/197641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}