We are looking for a new Ph.D. candidate to explore the neural basis of sensory integration and decision-making in zebrafish. Want to know more? 👉imprs-qbee.mpg.de/56000/bahl

We are hiring! After moving to #Konstanz, our 1st announcement: fully funded #PhDposition in #swarm #robotics This is your great opportunity to join one of the best research environments for collective behavior! please RT stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/adf…

The first Konstanz school of collective behavior will bring an amazing line up of speakers from our local community and abroad covering a wide range of approaches to collective behaviors #kscb . Check them out here : exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/speakers/

FUNDING Alert! My lab is hiring a postdoc and a technician to look at fish schooling and movements in the lab and field. Please RT and get in touch if interested! Job ad: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5276… U.S. National Science Foundation American Physical Society Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour FACT_Network SICB @neuroethology

At Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, the #swarmRobotics community keeps growing! Swadhin Agrawal joins us for a few months from MOON Lab@IISERB to look at the role of defectors in collective motion with Liang Li Heiko Hamann Giovanni Reina exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh…

seeking masters student co-supervised with Robotic Systems Lab to explore #bioinspired tail function sirop.org/app/af2472be-3…

We invite contributions to our #ICRA2024 Workshop Bioinspired Robotics and Robotics for Biology May 13, Yokohama, Japan Submission link: forms.gle/eQnWgLdT6Q3RE1… Website: li-lab.de/workshop/ #swarm #robotics Liang Li Giovanni Reina Iain Couzin Dario Floreano

Modelling collective animal behaviour through optimality theory? In our latest article, James Marshall and I propose 3 questions – analogous to Tinbergen's 4 questions – that are critical to applying optimality theory in collective animal behaviour doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe… thread👇

Don't miss the excellent opportunity to present your work at ANTS Conference, this year hosted by Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz on the beautiful lake shores of Bodensee Submission deadline: 24 March 14th Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence 9-11 Oct. 2024 Springer Nature uni-konstanz.de/ants-2024/

our paper is finalist for the IEEE ICRA *Best Paper Award* on Multi-Robot Systems! Do We Run Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems on the Edge? by Kuckling et al. preprint arxiv.org/abs/2310.11843 #ICRA #swarm #robotics #scalability #warehouse Jonas Kuckling Giovanni Reina Andrew Vardy

What advantages do #robots offer in the study of #collectivebehaviour? How is #robotic research influenced by biological systems? And what robot experiments are planned in the #UniKonstanz Imaging Hangar? Interview with three roboticists from Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour: t1p.de/gcewm

There is still time to send 1-page extended abstracts to the IEEE ICRA workshop on Bio-inspired Robotics and Robotics for Biology Looking forward to your contribution and meeting you in Yokohama, Japan! Best submissions will win a robot! More info: li-lab.de/workshop/

call for special issue in B&B RoboTwin: Reciprocal Insights between Biology and Robotics main idea: bio-inspired robotics & #robotics for #biology dead: Dec 1, 2024 organized by Liang Li, Wei Wang, Steven Coron, Giovanni Reina, Iain Couzin, and myself iopscience.iop.org/collections/bb…

We are excited to share our latest work on non-invasive 3D eye tracking and retinal view reconstruction in free-swimming fish, in collaboration with PREON7, Oliver Deussen, and Iain Couzin. Paper: rdcu.be/d3krE Code: github.com/preon7/free_fi…

Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applicati… ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in Science Magazine Max Planck Society Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules. Take a look at our field, lab, VR and modeling study of locusts in Science Magazine ! youtu.be/oBJnY4HKmeY?si…

Very excited to share our recent work on an interpretable and general data-driven algorithm for decoding the state of underwater swimming robots using onboard artificial lateral line sensors, recently published in Nature Communications: [link nature.com/articles/s4146…]

A new Science #Robotics study describes BioPD—a control strategy that can mimic how zebrafish swim together and implement them in #autonomous #vehicles for coordinated movements. Iain Couzin scim.ag/435kWw9

Excited to share our Science Robotics paper on reverse-engineering sensorimotor control via VR, applied to swarm robot pursuit with MPC-level performance. With Mate Nagy, Guy Amichay, Ruiheng Wu, Wei Wang, Oliver Deussen, Daniela Rus, & Iain Couzin. 🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…