Until recently, the dominant method to manufacture a moving machine, be it an aircraft, a spacecraft, or a submarine, was to ...

Swarm robotics takes this principle and encodes it into machines. By distributing intelligence across groups of autonomous robots rather than centralizing it, engineers are developing systems that are ...

Have you ever seen birds flying across the sky in shifting, mesmerizing patterns? Or ants using their own bodies to form a living bridge that other ants can walk across? In nature, organisms we ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Can we take inspiration from startled starlings to create a murmuration of AI-enabled swarming drones? DR DAVE SLOGGETT thinks we have a lot to learn from bird brains. Innovation In Contact (IIC) is ...

When it comes to innovation, nature often gets there first. For millions of years, plants and animals have been adapting, optimizing, and surviving through elegant solutions to life’s toughest ...

A swarm of ants, a flock of birds, and a school of fish are all examples of collective behavior in animals. These complex behaviors emerge without any clear leader, as animals respond to the ...