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 ...

Nature has always been a powerful source of inspiration for technology. From the coordinated movement of birds to the efficiency of ant colonies, collective behavior in nature demonstrates how simple ...

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 ...

Imagine you’re standing watch on a military base’s security forces team, monitoring for potential air threats. Your radar screen is cluttered with tracks – commercial aircraft, flocks of birds, and ...

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 ...

Metaheuristic algorithms play a vital role in addressing a wide range of real-world problems by overcoming hardware and computational constraints. The Chameleon Swarm Algorithm (CSA) is a modern ...

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 ...

In swarm research, a new method makes it possible to track the eye movements of fish automatically, non-invasively and in 3D. Researchers explain why this is important for understanding the 'rules of ...

In a latest study published in Engineering, researchers from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Zhejiang University have unveiled a pioneering approach to designing on-chip ...