Heiko Hamann

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

Black and white photo of Stanley Kubrick scratching the head of the cat in his lap.

Cat lover Stanley Kubrick and friend

Kubrick was BOTD in 1928

remembering Stanley Kubrick on his birthday 🐐 #filmsky

Jaw-Dropping Video Shows NASA’s Plan to Deliver a Helicopter Swarm to Mars Without Landing The helicopters will scout the Martian surface to help prepare for a human landing on the Red Planet.

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

Congrats, Khai! Great performance and many thanks for contributing to this important subject.

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!

Wow, congrats!

ALIFE 2025: The Artificial Life Conference, 6-10 October, Kyoto, Japan ALIFE 2025’s theme is 'Ciphers of Life', exploring the many ways that life encodes information, creates internal languages, and interacts in encrypted ways with its environment.

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

PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025

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

Funny. This is really harder and harder to answer. Reminds me of these interviews on the street in Russia: “Huh, not sure what to say… I don’t really follow politics…”

YouTube video by Universität Konstanz Konstanzer Wissenschaftsforum: "Wasser im Wandel – von Quellen, Quaggamuscheln und Querelen"

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...

“the Trump administration wants to cancel the 2026 elections”
That was expected from day 1. There will be no elections.

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

YouTube video by NES_Taskforce CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics

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...

Yes, his family and also Elsa called him Albertle as a diminutive.

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

The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts Collective motion, which is ubiquitous in nature, has traditionally been explained by “self-propelled particle” models from theoretical physics. Here we show, through field, lab, and virtual reality e...

Find the paper here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by Collective Behaviour Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules

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...

In Germany a Nazi salute means: „I’m going to kill 50 million people and will be proud of it.“

Der Zug nach Westen – Jahrzehntelange Abwanderung, die allmählich nachlässt Die DDR stellt einen Sonderfall unter den Industriegesellschaften dar, weil sie durchgehend eine negative Bevölkerungsentwicklung aufwies. Zwischen 1948 und 1989 sank die Einwohnerzahl von 19,1 Mio. a...

All people with ambition have left east Germany between 1989 and 2010. Only listless men are still there, mostly white trash.

www.bpb.de/themen/deuts...