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Sakana AI's collective intelligence finally goes physical
These identical bricks taught themselves to recognize their own shape. No central brain needed.
A stack of identical cubes, each running the same tiny neural network and talking only to its immediate neighbors, can figure out their global shape, detect damage, and guide regrowth. No single brick knows where it is. The system hit 100 percent accuracy in hardware, published in Nature Communications.
2026-07-21