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The first plenary speaker of ANTS Conference is Iain Couzin MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social who will present extraordinary quantitative research in collective animal behaviour through cutting-edge technology for virtual reality. Don't miss his talk, join us at ANTS 2024! Submission deadline: April 7

Don't miss the 2nd April deadline for poster abstracts, demos, and videos for the #ICRA2024 workshop on Breaking Swarm Stereotypes. We have a great lineup of speakers and panellists. You can win prizes and a robot! More info here: hauertlab.com/breaking-swarm…

2nd plenary speaker of ANTS Conference is Barbara Mazzolai European Research Council (ERC), with an unmissable talk on how her Bioinspired Soft Robotics lab group uses lessons from plant intelligence🌱🌿 to build the robotics systems of our future! ANTS 2024 - #Konstanz, 9-11 October Paper submission deadline: April 7

Blockchain technology can be integrated into mobile multi-robot systems. Read about the topic in our latest Perspective by IRIDIA, ULB from Université libre de Bruxelles @MarcoDorigo_ULB, Volker Strobel nature.com/articles/s4428…

A recent publication in @commseng reports a strategy to automatically design stigmergy-based collective behaviours for robot swarms rdcu.be/dzLcC Muhammad Salman David Garzón Ramos Mauro Birattari IRIDIA, ULB F.R.S.-FNRS

Meet our 3rd plenary speaker of ANTS 2024 Prof. Emma Hart Edinburgh Napier University this October (9th-11th) in #Konstanz. Emma will show how to solve difficult optimisation problems through #artificialEvolution, including how to automatically design the #collectiveBehaviour of robot swarms!🤖🤖

Read our latest IRIDIA, ULB #research on #blockchain in #MultiRobotSystems and #SwarmRobotics, published with Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering rdcu.be/dComs @MarcoDorigo_ULB A. Pacheco Giovanni Reina

🤖 🐜 Quand les robots apprennent des fourmis : Mauro Birattari, Directeur de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS Université libre de Bruxelles, et ses collègues ont mis au point un processus qui permet à des robots de générer eux-mêmes des comportements, sans intervention humaine. youtube.com/watch?v=vIxAlV…

Many thanks for all your submissions! The review is already ongoing since several days. Stay tuned! uni-konstanz.de/ants-2024/

Excited about robotics and software engineering? Don't miss the ACM SIGSOFT Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics, by IRIDIA, ULB from June 4-8. Build reliable robotic systems with hands-on learning & networking opportunities. Register now: scivenia.com/en/event/summe…

Please check out the #biology track of ANTS 2024! We invite the submission of abstracts by May 28th, 2024. eg. behavioural models of social insects/other animal societies, theoretical&empirical research in collective animal behaviour more details here: kim212.wwwdns.kim.uni-konstanz.de/2024_ANTS_bioT…

We have sent out the #ANTS paper notification. Congrats to all accepted papers&extended abstracts! We have a fantastic mix of contributions. We are very much looking forward to meet you all in #Konstanz in Oct to celebrate the #swarm community. #robotics #optimization #pso #aco

Always great to stop by the place you studied for your PhD degree and meet your advisor. Possibly one of the perks of doing a PhD after all ;-) IRIDIA, ULB

🚨 #Swarm #robotics alert! :) Our latest paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems: Automatic design of robot swarms under concurrent design criteria: a study based on Iterated F-Race onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… 🧑‍💻📊 🚦🤖🤖🤖 w/ Federico Pagnozzi, T. Stützle, and Mauro Birattari. 🧵1/

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/

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!

In today’s IRIDIA seminar: “A Cybernetic Perspective of Adaptive Robots,” by Andrea Roli, Università di Bologna, discussing how cybernetic principles can inspire and guide future research in robotics, with a focus on online adaptation in robots. 🤖🔄📚

In today’s IRIDIA seminar: “Disassembling of Retired Power Batteries,” by Mengling Chu, Southeast University 东南大学, exploring hybrid approaches combining metaheuristics and reinforcement learning to tackle complex disassembly challenges in power batteries. 🔋🔧🤖

I put some good amount of work into this, so I might as well share it here :) 🎓 Check out my PhD thesis! Leveraging environmental and inter-robot signaling in the automatic modular design of #robot #swarms (2025) 🔗 dgarzonramos.com/docs/Gar2025ph… 🤖 🤖 🤖 >🚦🗺️🐜🐑🎯🧑‍🏫 🧵1/2

Our paper, "Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviours for robot swarms," has been selected for the 2024 Editor's Choice collection of Communications Engineering (Nature Portfolio)! 📄 The paper: nature.com/articles/s4417… 🌟 The Editor's Choice collection: nature.com/articles/s4417… -