Designing robot swarms is part puzzle, part problem—and definitely a mess! In this 5-min read, we characterize complexities of designing robot swarms and highlight research goals that are shaping the field. arxiv.org/abs/2410.22478 🤖🧩 In ICRA@40 w/ Sabine Hauert, EMERGE project

Happy times at the excellent DARS Symposium in New York this week! Congratulations to Simon Jones for his exciting work on Distributed Spatial Awareness for Swarms, which won Best Paper Award! He's been working on this for a while, building on Andrew Davison's excellent work on GBP.

Congrats to the #DARS2024 Best Paper Award Winners, Simon Jones and Sabine Hauert!

The submission deadline for the #Swarm intelligence- Collective motions from biology to robotic collection Nature Communications Communications Physics Communications Engineering @natureportfolio is extended to 28 February 2025. Feel free to reach out with your #collection related questions #ArticleCollection

Our paper Self-organizing Nervous Systems (SoNS) for Robot Swarms was published in Science Robotics yesterday! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Using SoNS, entire robot swarms can be programmed as if they were single robots with reconfigurable morphologies. 1/

Check out this great work from IRIDIA, ULB. I have seen this work evolve from its beginnings and I'm happy to see it finally being published. Amazing work by all the authors and in particular Weixu Zhu, @sinannoguzz and MK Heinrich!

New research in Science #Robotics describes a #SelfOrganizing approach that enables #swarms comprising wheeled robots and drones to coordinate decision-making for simulated search and rescue missions. IRIDIA, ULB Université libre de Bruxelles bit.ly/4fI9t9j

Great feature article on our Self-organizing Nervous Systems, from TechXplore ! techxplore.com/news/2024-11-n… Weixu Zhu @sinannoguzz Michael Allwright Mostafa Wahby Anders Lyhne Christensen Emanuele Garone and Marco Dorigo IRIDIA, ULB @PolytechBXL @scie

Meet the EMERGE Team: David Garzón Ramos is a Research Associate at University of Bristol. His research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, collective intelligence, and robotics.

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The new Zukunftskolleg Annual Report 2024 is out! Again as a digital edition (zuko-annualreport.uni-konstanz.de/2024), accompanied by an ingenious leaflet and – if you wish – you can also order a printed pdf version by sending an email to [email protected]. Enjoy reading!

Our recent paper featured in Advanced Science News! Happy to comment on our motivations for investigating the automatic design of #robot #swarms and on the challenges of realizing robot swarms while considering multiple design criteria. 📰 🤖🤖🤖 Thanks for the interview!

We are much looking forward to today's Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Seminar Series: Salah Talamali from the University of Sheffield, UK, speaks about Creating Magical Experiences: Sound Wave Manipulation for Touch Sensation and Object Levitation. exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… Universität Konstanz MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Excited to see our article featured in Communications Biology! 🤩 ➡️ Check it out: nature.com/articles/s4200…

Thanks, Salah Talamali, for visiting Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour of Universität Konstanz and presenting your cool research on sound wave manipulation, an interesting technology that could improve our animal experiments with prey levitation and invisible touch.

Thrilled to announce that my dissertation is now published! 🎉 You can check it out here: kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/1234567… Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz

Congratulations Alberto Doimo on becoming an Acoustic & Sound Engineer from Politecnico di Milano, with a wonderful thesis project on the design and implementation of the Ro-Bat, a bat-inspired robot 🦇 🤖 conducted at Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Universität Konstanz We look forward to continuing working with you!

How can agents with simple bio-inspired brains make decisions together? This is what we simulate in our new arXiv preprint: “Collective decision making by embodied neural agents”

How can a team optimally mobilize its forces? A new study led by Veit-Lorenz Heuthe and Clemens Bechinger Universität Konstanz offers a clever solution - demonstrated with a swarm of microrobots! exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-beh… Read the full study here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Scientistshave developed an #AI-based control strategy that enables individual laser-driven #microrobots within a swarm to cooperate, like ants or termites, to manipulate objects. Universität Konstanz Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour Learn more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/41GNAnk