Radhika Nagpal
Radhika Nagpal’s team demonstrated a swarm of 1,024 Kilobots that could form shapes through local sensing. The work appeared in Science in 2014 and served as a platform for collective intelligence research. Her group worked with NASA on soft climbing robots for structural inspection. In 2021, it tested locomotion and sensing during flights that simulated Martian, lunar and zero-gravity conditions. Nagpal joined Princeton in January 2022 from Harvard. The university announcement also describes Blueswarm fish-like robots and research on adaptable ant bridges as sources of ideas for robot teams.
- Now at
- Princeton University
- Works
- 221
- Citations
- 10,699
- h-index
- 48
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2014
A thousand small robots
Radhika Nagpal’s team demonstrated a swarm of 1,024 Kilobots that could form shapes through local sensing. The work appeared in Science in 2014 and served as a platform for collective intelligence research.
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2021
Climbing robot tests
Her group worked with NASA on soft climbing robots for structural inspection. In 2021, it tested locomotion and sensing during flights that simulated Martian, lunar and zero-gravity conditions.
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2022
Princeton robotics
Nagpal joined Princeton in January 2022 from Harvard. Her work includes Blueswarm fish-like robots and research on adaptable ant bridges that inform robot teams.
Sources and credits
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