Rising global investments in autonomous and connected systems are accelerating real-world adoption of swarm intelligence. World military spending reached USD 2.44 trillion in 2023 (SIPRI), ...

Swarm robotics harnesses the collective behaviours observed in nature to coordinate large numbers of simple, autonomous agents, enabling them to accomplish complex tasks that would be arduous for a ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to ...

Taking inspiration from nature, a team of scientists from Princeton University and Northwestern University is building a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that could one day lead to buildings with ...

Professor Sabine Hauert has received an honorary OBE for her services to robotics, recognizing more than 20 years of research into swarm engineering and collaborative robotic systems. Her work spans ...

The origins of swarm robotics lie in explorations of principles of self-organization and collective decision-making. The early 2000s marked the transition of swarm robotics from theory to practice as ...

Pictured above are robots, used in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, that have the potential to advance "artificial swarm intelligence"—a type of AI that mimics flocking birds ...

Firefighting robots powered by artificial intelligence have completed a successful early trial in Australia, ...