The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Welcome to Grasiela Ferreira who joins our team as an exchange student from Brazil. Grasiela holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Computing at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC).

Welcome to Suet Lee who joins us as a postdoc in swarm robotics. She worked with @swarmdynamics.bsky.social & @sabinehauert.bsky.social. Her research spans embodied language for robot swarms and the embedding of such systems seamlessly and safely in real-world human environments. @tuda.bsky.social

📢ANTS 2026 Call for Late Breaking Results & Fresh Perspectives (posters & demos) Early-bird registration ends this Friday (20 Feb) We welcome interdisciplinary work on collective behaviour and self-organised systems, across science, engineering, arts, and humanities. Details at ants2026.org

Robots that understand human language 🤖🗣️ #emergenCITY-PI @roderichgross.bsky.social co-authored a paper onGenSwarm, a system that turns plain English into robot behaviors. This could be especially useful e.g. in rescue missions or disaster response. More info + link to paper: buff.ly/LOzbsyM

📣 Registration is now open for ANTS 2026! Explore the full list of accepted papers on our website: ants2026.org Early-bird registration available until 20 February 2026.

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Fascinating! Author of www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread... sees value in AI, casts some doubts regarding novelty, concludes “Time will tell how long before AI is able to help with some of the truly hard problems, and what the balance between human and AI researchers will be in such investigations”

New paper on multi-robot code-policy generation and deployment on real platforms via LLMs www.nature.com/articles/s44... . Thanks to Shiyu Zhao for making it possible! @tuda.bsky.social @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social

Welcome to Grace McFassel who joins our team as a postdoctoral researcher. Grace obtained her PhD with Dylan Shell @tamu.bsky.social and worked with Kaushik Jayaram @colorado.edu on small-scale robots. Her research concerns how robots use information and recover from faults. @tuda.bsky.social

Check it out! 🇬🇧 deepmind.google/blog/strengt... 👍

Exciting first day at swarmworkshop.eu in Brussels! Horizon Europe projects OpenSwarm, TaRDIS, SwarmEdge, P2CODE and OASEES presenting their research on programming tools and decentralised intelligence and swarms.

This is a highly innovative robot design, and the application in mind somewhat different from the usual “search and rescue” 😀

📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025! No further extensions will be granted. If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community. We look forward to seeing your contributions!

📢 ANTS 2026 submission deadline is approaching! Submitting a paper? Consider submitting an accompanying video too! Accepted videos will be peer-reviewed and published as supplementary material on Springer Nature Link. 🏆 Up to four Best Video Awards will be awarded to the most outstanding videos!

Continuing with our tradition started at ANTS 2002, the "Best Paper Award" at ANTS 2026 consists of a custom made sculpture specially made for the ANTS conference series by the Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese. 📥 Submit your paper at ants2026.org Deadline : November 10th 2025

🐜 Submissions for ANTS 2026 are now open! 🐜 We invite you to submit your paper by 10 November 2025. Authors may also submit an accompanying video with their paper. If accepted, the video will appear as electronic supplementary material on Springer Nature Link alongside the publication.

Y en fin, como olvidar a Julia Roberts en los Globos de Oro de 1990 y su traje de Armani.

Fox finds raccoons in henhouse. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/07...

„pass rates were 54 per cent at 8am, rising to 72 per cent by midday and then dropping to 51 per cent by 4pm“ - that is huge and at least partially attributed to sleep patterns! Data from Italy, known for its quality lunchtime ;-)

The sixth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Pranav Kedia on #BioMimetic #sailboat #swarms #BioInspiration @cbehav.bsky.social#kscb2025#keynote#biomimetic#sailboat#swarms#bioinspirations://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Changing platforms in Brussels. All seems bigger than I remember (from my studies)!

What a game :-)

Inspiring talk by Martin Stefanec from University of Graz on Unveiling the Logic of the Hive Through Technology. Also a great opportunity to learn new languages! #RoboRoyale

Day 2 of bio-hybrid swarm systems summer school at Middle East Technical University, Türkiye, kicking off with @swarmdynamics.bsky.social talking about plants that sense and subjective time perception in human-swarm interaction. Thanks Erol Sahin for organising!

www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU... Our resilient cyber-physical systems group at @tuda.bsky.social has a 3 year postdoc position available for blue sky science in distributed robotics. Please consider joining the amazing team! Public sector salary (ca. 61 k - 85 k) plus 30 days annual leave.

Next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons" 17th June 2025, @2pm UK time Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on how to access our seminars!

First Call for Papers - ANTS 2026 Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026 ants2026.org The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme: "Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities". 🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025

Ok it's no secret that I'm a bit late to the LLM game... but I have to say: I have been having a LOT of fun generating videos with Veo 3. Here is a music video (a collage of Veo 3 clips) based on Sprunki mix I made with my son! 🌞🙌🪩🎶 youtu.be/ikMKSfl0MFI?... Enjoy! <3 #veo3 #sprunki Sound on! 👍

www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU... Our resilient cyber-physical systems group at @tuda.bsky.social has a 3 year postdoc position available for blue sky science in distributed robotics. Please consider joining the amazing team! Public sector salary (ca. 61 k - 85 k) plus 30 days annual leave.

Harvard Taught This British Student About Democracy. Now Trump May Force Him Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u... Interesting read (and apparently not behind paywall)!

Excited to be part of the new Hessen Monitor – studying democracy, division & resilience in Hesse. Backed by the Hessian Ministry, led by an amazing team at @tuda.bsky.social, colleagues from 5 unis at Hesse are teaming up. For a stronger democracy!

“Anonymous GitHub” — I just discovered this today. What a great idea!! (Apparently I am the 46,631ˢᵗ to find it.) Provides an anonymized portal to your GitHub respiratory suitable for submission to double-blind review for research conference papers or journal articles. anonymous.4open.science

It was a blast to visit the @cbehav.bsky.social ! I am impressed by their concentration of talent and creativity. I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special! Let's write a paper already :-)

Morgen geht's los mit den öffentlichen Vorträgen im Rahmen unserer #emergenCITYWeek25. Dirk Ringe und Katja Mombaur sind zu Gast. Kurzfristige Anmeldungen nehmen wir für beide Veranstaltungen via [email protected] entgegen.

Heading back after a wonderful journey taking me to Atlanta (ICRA) and Detroit (AAMAS). Loved every inch of it, including discussions on Steiner trees with ETH Zurich folks just prior to boarding. @aamasconf.bsky.social @genkimiyauchi.bsky.social @salahtalamali.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @ethz.ch

apnews.com/video/robots... walk, roll, fly to showcase cutting edge technology at leading international conference in Atlanta

🚀 TU Darmstadt leads the new Cluster of Excellence "Reasonable AI" – advancing trustworthy, efficient & adaptive AI grounded in common sense. A big thank you to the entire team, the university, and the state of Hesse for their tremendous work & support!

Reasonable Artificial Intelligence und The Adaptive Mind: Die TU Darmstadt wird im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder mit gleich zwei geförderten Clusterprojekten ausgezeichnet. Ein Meilenstein für unsere Universität! www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

I presented our work: 📦🔋“Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints” at @aamasconf.bsky.social today! Thanks to @salahtalamali.bsky.social, Thomas Watteyne, Micael Santos Couceiro, @roderichgross.bsky.social, and OpenSwarm

@aamasconf.bsky.social Enjoying #AAMAS program, with AI panel on „What research will matter most for an age of autonomous agents in mixed-motive settings?“

Ein Team von Forschenden der TU Darmstadt und der University of Sheffield hat in Zusammenarbeit mit weiteren Partner:innen ein neues Verfahren zur energiebewussten Einsatzplanung für Lieferdrohnen entwickelt.

We are excited to announce that the Fifteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) will be taking place on June 8-10, 2026 in Darmstadt, Germany. 📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025 📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026 📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026 🌐 ants2026.org

While you're all still arriving, we're posting liminal space still lifes in soon-to-be conference rooms. Follow for more art. And for the many interesting talks, workshops, tutorials and more we've planned for you this week! #AAMAS25

🥇 AND THE WINNER IS.... AITO Dahl-Nygaard Senior Prize is awarded to Mira Mezini! Congratulations, Mira Mezini! 💐

Liang Li and team have developed a VR system for fish to decipher how they school. The team uncovered the natural ‘control law’ used by zebrafish to coordinate behavior with others. @icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...