Paolo Leopardi

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!

🐜 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.

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

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

After two great opening keynotes at @css-conference.bsky.social, my students @nomaanhusain.bsky.social and Sindiso Mkhatshwa present their research in lightening plenary talks. #swarmRobotics #collectiveBehaviour #CCS2025 @cbehav.bsky.social Siena 🇮🇹

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 🇮🇹

We’re excited to welcome Andrew Vardy to CASCB until August 26! Leader of the BOTS Group at Memorial University — and the inspiration for a swarm of robots in Doctor Who — Andrew will give a guest talk on August 6 and is open to meeting with CASCB researchers.

Autonomous sailboats? Check. Lecture? Check. Boat-on-stage entrance? @praked.bsky.social stole the show at #KSCB2025. 😎⛵

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

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Multiple robots performing specialized tasks

Etich of AI and Robotics. Archimedes (Gyro Gearloose in the English version) states: 'A lot of knowledge with little morality is dangerous.'

Swarm of micro-robots that self-organize to form complex stuctures

I went back home for a few days and found this Donald Duck comic from October 1999. The comic features Donald Duck and his friends' adventures as they encounter various types of robots.

It’s interesting to see that these challenges are still relevant after more than 25 years! 🤖🦆

The second season of our podcast "In the Swarm" is here! Get ready for a new episode every 2 weeks on Wednesdays!

First episode is with Dr. Liang Li, who designs, builds, and optimises robotic fish to study energy saving mechanisms within fish schools.🐟

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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.

Heading to #OCEANS2025 in Brest 🇫🇷!
Working on autonomous sailing robots (SailSwarm) & keen to meet others in marine robotics, ocean monitoring & cool tech.
Let’s grab a coffee ☕ — or if you're based in Bretagne, I’d love to visit your lab/project too!
DMs open ⛵🌊

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

Today we’re excited to welcome @jonaskuresearch.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de to our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore how swarms of robots learn complex behaviours via modular design, imitation learning & open-ended techniques.
📍 ZT 702 & online

Today, German Science Foundation @dfg.de decided to shut down the most vibrant, inspiring, and successful scientific community I’ve been part of!
@cbehav.bsky.social fostered groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in #collectiveBehavior. Its closure is a loss for science in Germany and beyond 🕯️🌑

Group pictures are always challenging! 🐶😮‍💨

Hello World!
After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :)
We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

Two years ago today, I defended my master’s thesis in Robotics Engineering. Incredible to see how time flies—and how much effort I put into opening that bottle, though

The Konstanz school of collective behaviour is back! We look forward to welcoming everyone to Konstanz this summer

Check out the amazing lineup!

The crew abandoned the sinking ship 🚣🤣

I just deleted my X account after less than 3 months of subscription. Let’s see if I last longer here 🦋💪

+ bonus picture of the Alps from a (dirty) plane window

YouTube video by Collective Behaviour The Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

#CollectiveBehaviour is all around. Here is a short film showcasing our research as the cluster of excellence, collective behaviour in based in @uni-konstanz.de

youtu.be/S0MkSuBK0iI?...