📢 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!

New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: https://t1p.de/4c6cd#UniKonstanz@icouzin.bsky.social

‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’ Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How do flocks of birds move as one? New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb." ->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion #swarm doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Today is #alife2025 day 1! Workshops under way... We have our own workshop tmw on Cultural Evolution of Planet X, 13.30-16.30, room 4F. Exciting keynotes from James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social. Join us!

#ALife #evolution #modeling #simulation

🎉 Check out our new paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This work highlights the interdisciplinary efforts of the ChronoPilot project and our fruitful collaboration with partners from Konstanz. @haplab.bsky.social

„I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, ‘Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?’ And I said, ‘Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?’“ — Robin Williams #USA #Trump #Kimmel

The obvious advantage of doing research with plants. 🌱😁 Many thanks to Eddy!

🚨 Last days to submit! 🚨 Join the Workshop on Cultural Evolution of Planet X at @alife2025.bsky.social (Kyoto, Oct 7). We welcome abstracts on cultural evolution and emergent culture in artificial systems. Work presented elsewhere too! 📅 Deadline: Sept 20 🔗 sites.google.com/view/planetx...

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When life gives you a fish, you sail with it. 🐟⛵🤖 Our autonomous sailboat and robotic fish finally met on Lake Constance — and the footage did not disappoint. 🌊 Big thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social , Hun Jang and Liang Li for making this happen. #robotics #swarm #autonomy #maritime

Just submitted the manuscript for the 2nd edition of Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach 🎉 ✅ ~2× the size ✅ fully updated with latest research ✅ ready4the breakthrough years ahead Thanks to all who supported! Now in production—stay tuned. Now it's in production – stay tuned. #swarm #robotics #book

Full room for Eleonora Gatti's talk at @css-conference.bsky.social, presenting our analysis on the energetic benefits of using social information, in the case study of large soaring birds 🦅 @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025 Siena 🇮🇹

From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras. Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025

Hey #CCS2025 friends, before your dinner🍝 in Siena, come to Simay Atasoy's poster to discover how many robots can be optimimally allocated to many tasks! While this problem seems computationally untractable, she found how to solve it efficiently! @cbehav.bsky.social @css-conference.bsky.social

New Episode! What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

Coppola Champions Herzog at Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: ‘If Werner Has Limits, I Don’t Know What They Are’ www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...

Independence Day of Ukraine Fight for freedom Never give up

📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪

Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot! #swarm #robotics www.aboutamazon.com/news/operati...

“AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower” Overview post on “Pivot to AI” by David Gerard (pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/a...) Via Anthony Bucci on LinkedIn. Research post from METR by Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes, and David Rein. (metr.org/blog/2025-07...)

One of the greatest geniuses who ever lived on this planet!

Cat lover Stanley Kubrick and friend Kubrick was BOTD in 1928

remembering Stanley Kubrick on his birthday 🐐 #filmsky

Multi-agent systems — ON MARS! Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.

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!

Join us at the Cultural Evolution of Planet X: Emergent Creativity and Wisdom of the Crowds workshop at #ALIFE2025! Explore how we design and imagine cultural evolution on an artificial planet X, drawing inspiration from cultural evolution in animals on Earth. 🌌👾 🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eg32maqs

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

Swarming in the Wild: A Distributed Communication-less Lloyd-based Algorithm dealing with Uncertainties by Manuel Boldrer, Vít Krátký, Viktor Walter, Martin Saska Fully distributed #UAV swarming in forests; no comms, no GPS, just onboard sensors. It works! :) #swarm arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18840

I'm proud to announce that @khaiyichin.bsky.social defended his PhD dissertation titled "Sensing Through Faults: Collective Perception by Imperfect Robot Swarms." Many thanks to @swarmdynamics.bsky.social, Dr. Kevin Leahy and Dr. Nitin Sanket, for your time and your thoughtful feedback!

Happy Friday! Here is a shiny new update for you. 🎊🎊 Our LaTex template just dropped! 🎊🎊 You can find it at 2025.alife.org This template applies for Full Papers (≤ 8pages) & Summaries (≤ 3 pages) Please prepare submissions using the template for a smooth submission process. #ALIFE #ALIFE2025

Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at Opteran ltd, will give a plenary "Opteran: Reverse engineering insect brains to create minds for machines" at Living Machines 2025, Sheffield this July. CfP open till April 14th livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... @opteran.bsky.social

#LLM #swarm paper: GenSwarm: Scalable Multi-Robot Code-Policy Generation and Deployment via Language Models by W. Ji et al. @roderichgross.bsky.social lets robots learn tasks from natural language, no coding, zero-shot, fast. thx to Jonas for spotting #ai #ml #robotics arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23875

interesting new paper Reinforcement Learning for Active Matter by Wenjie Cai et al. Reinforcement learning is emerging as a powerful tool to guide and control active matter, both individual particles and collective swarms. #swarm #robotics #RL arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23308

Konstanzer Wissenschaftsforum mit dem Schwerpunktthema Wasser am 11. und 12. April 2025 im Bodenseeforum Konstanz und im Livestream auf dem #UniKonstanz YouTube-Kanal. Weitere Informationen unter: uni.kn/wissenschaft... Video: Patrick Doodt / www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiep...

Thomas Jefferson on November 13, 1787

It's like when you do that awkward dance with someone when you're each trying to get out of the other's way

CapBot the robot platform for #swarm #robotics without a battery (instead: capacitor array) charged in 16 seconds, autonomy for ~50 min work by Mengyao Liu (KU Leuven) et al. within project OpenSwarm great idea! @roderichgross.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnik...

I always enjoy crossing paths with "Albertle" Einstein—at least historically! Today at Café Louvre in Prague, where Einstein was a regular in 1912. He held a professorship in Prague starting 1911 but returned to Zurich just a year later. 🏛️☕ #Einstein #Prague #CafeLouvre

Always great to visit the @bristoluni.bsky.social fellows and catch up on all their wonderful research in collective behaviour and swarm robotics. Thanks, @dgarzonramos.com, @sabinehauert.bsky.social Jonathan & Nikolai et al. for fantastic hospitality

It was great to have you around! Awesome things happening in Konstanz :)

#ChronoPilot meeting started with scenario discussions ⏳ 🫳🏽👁👂🏼 @haplab.bsky.social @argirovatakis.bsky.social @swarmdynamics.bsky.social @haplab.bsky.social

This is important news The old particle models with alignment do not really describe the actual swarm behavior. Instead, locusts behave in a more cognitive way. This should also inform #swarm #robotics & how we do flocking! @icouzin.bsky.social @joefresna.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJn...

If you want to get a fast intro to or update of the state of the art in #swarm #robotics, then check out the proceedings of last year's "ANTS" conference: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"No, no more pity for the pitiless! There will be no peace on this Russian land until the corpses of the tsars and barons lie beneath it; there will be no human and moral order until we enforce it." -- Stefan Zweig, Decisive Moments in History The Flight to God, extra act2Tolstoy's The Light Shines

Hope your day is going well, look at my robot!

Greetings from #Konstanz. We will never run out of locusts. @cbehav.bsky.social

‼️FYI. The deadline for paper contributions is May 4th 2025*. Our submission platform will open shortly. Note: This year looks a bit different to previous years. We'll be inviting 3 types of contributions: Full papers (3-8 pages) Summaries (2 pages) ✨️new!✨️ Late Breaking Abstracts (2 pages)* 👇