These short movies document some important steps in the evolution of the project. The movies on the first and second lines line were taken during the preliminary phase, following a training period by undergrad EPFL student Paola Bernasconi (then in Montreal), followed by researcher Jean-Christophe Zufferey (from Lausanne). Some of the first movies were taken with a digital photo device, which explains their inferior quality. M180 was the prototype, equipped with only one sensor. M170 are equipped with sixlight-sentitive sonars and eight regular sonars. The third line shows demos filmed for official presentations in Montreal, in May 2005, with fully-equipped M170 model. Engineer Eric Poncet appears on most of these videos. The last line shows 2D and 3D simulations implemented by post-doc researcher Julien Nembrini in 2004-2005. These simulations allow to test the auto-organisational potential of the Mascarillons with various set of parameters.

Videos II, III, IV, V, VII by Nunasoft
Simulations and videos XI, XII, XIII, XIV by J. Nembrini with the Webots software