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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What looks like a roundabout - the Sonnenfelsplatz shown here from Graz - is legally a meeting zone with no traffic lights or signs, and apparently this self-organised setup contributes to fewer accidents.

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Enjoyed visiting @uni-graz.at for the Complexity of Life Conference last week. Amazing talks (e.g. @hirokisayama.bsky.social, @douglasguilbeault.bsky.social plus @suetl.bsky.social from my team), and perspectives! Thanks to Daniel Reisinger & co for organising! colibri.uni-graz.at/de/complexit...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

WHO of these two will lead the Labour party into the future??

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TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Dem Einsatz von Roboterschwärmen widmet sich die international bedeutsame Tagung ANTS 2026, die vom 8. bis 10.6. in Darmstadt stattfindet. Der Vorsitzende der Konferenz, Roderich Groß, TU-Informatikprofessor, gibt im Interview einen Ausblick auf die Veranstaltung www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

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Ameisen, Fische und Vögel: Roboter nach dem Vorbild der Natur

Dem Einsatz von Roboterschwärmen widmet sich die international bedeutsame Tagung ANTS 2026, die vom 8. bis 10. Juni 2026 in Darmstadt stattfindet. Der Vorsitzende der Konferenz, Roderich Groß, Informa...

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Wonderful weather in Darmstadt enjoying Hundertwasser Waldspirale

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

7 days till ANTS 2026 is starting! 🐜🐝🐠🤖🤖🛜@tuda.bsky.social

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📘 The full ANTS 2026 Conference Guidebook is now available. It brings together the full conference programme, now including Late Breaking Results and Fresh Perspectives, as well as a selection of robot demos lined up. Explore the full guidebook here: ants2026.org/pdf/ANTS2026...

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 27/04/2026

No need for science if you have dogma and disinformation 🤦‍♂️

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

📢 The technical programme for ANTS 2026 is now available online. We’re looking forward to welcoming researchers and practitioners to Darmstadt this June for what promises to be an exciting programme. You can explore the technical programme here: ants2026.org

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Three days left to contribute a late breaking result & fresh perspective! Welcoming original works and those published after ANTS 2024, including live demos and performances. 🐜🤖🌃🐝📱💻👥👾🕹️🤖🐠🐠🙋‍♀️🙋⚗️🎨🎶

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Welcome to Grasiela Ferreira who joins our team as an exchange student from Brazil. Grasiela holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Computing at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC).

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Welcome to Suet Lee who joins us as a postdoc in swarm robotics. She worked with @swarmdynamics.bsky.social & @sabinehauert.bsky.social. Her research spans embodied language for robot swarms and the embedding of such systems seamlessly and safely in real-world human environments. @tuda.bsky.social

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📢ANTS 2026 Call for Late Breaking Results & Fresh Perspectives (posters & demos) Early-bird registration ends this Friday (20 Feb) We welcome interdisciplinary work on collective behaviour and self-organised systems, across science, engineering, arts, and humanities. Details at ants2026.org

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LOEWE emergenCITY @emergencity.de · 16/02/2026

Robots that understand human language 🤖🗣️ #emergenCITY-PI @roderichgross.bsky.social co-authored a paper onGenSwarm, a system that turns plain English into robot behaviors. This could be especially useful e.g. in rescue missions or disaster response. More info + link to paper: buff.ly/LOzbsyM

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Programming Robots to Work Together – emergenCITY

emergenCITY aims at investigating fundamentals, methods and solutions towards the resilience of future digital cities and especially the capability of Information and Communication Technology to…

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

📣 Registration is now open for ANTS 2026! Explore the full list of accepted papers on our website: ants2026.org Early-bird registration available until 20 February 2026.

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

🥁 Psst! 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 📣📨🔜

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Fascinating! Author of www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread... sees value in AI, casts some doubts regarding novelty, concludes “Time will tell how long before AI is able to help with some of the truly hard problems, and what the balance between human and AI researchers will be in such investigations”

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Erdős Problems Blog - A new blog and a site retrospective

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New paper on multi-robot code-policy generation and deployment on real platforms via LLMs www.nature.com/articles/s44... . Thanks to Shiyu Zhao for making it possible! @tuda.bsky.social @cs-tudarmstadt.bsky.social

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Client Challenge

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Welcome to Grace McFassel who joins our team as a postdoctoral researcher. Grace obtained her PhD with Dylan Shell @tamu.bsky.social and worked with Kaushik Jayaram @colorado.edu on small-scale robots. Her research concerns how robots use information and recover from faults. @tuda.bsky.social

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Exciting first day at swarmworkshop.eu in Brussels! Horizon Europe projects OpenSwarm, TaRDIS, SwarmEdge, P2CODE and OASEES presenting their research on programming tools and decentralised intelligence and swarms.

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Swarm Workshop

Swarm Workshop: Programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms | 26 - 27 November, 2025 | The event is organised by TaRDIS, OASEES, P2CODE, SmartEdge, and OpenSwarm projects funded by the...

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is a highly innovative robot design, and the application in mind somewhat different from the usual “search and rescue” 😀

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📢 ANTS 2026 deadline extended to 20 Nov 2025! No further extensions will be granted. If you haven’t submitted yet, there’s still time to share your latest work with the swarm intelligence community. We look forward to seeing your contributions!

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📢 ANTS 2026 submission deadline is approaching! Submitting a paper? Consider submitting an accompanying video too! Accepted videos will be peer-reviewed and published as supplementary material on Springer Nature Link. 🏆 Up to four Best Video Awards will be awarded to the most outstanding videos!

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Continuing with our tradition started at ANTS 2002, the "Best Paper Award" at ANTS 2026 consists of a custom made sculpture specially made for the ANTS conference series by the Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese. 📥 Submit your paper at ants2026.org Deadline : November 10th 2025

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🐜 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.

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Raquel Marcos @raquelmarcos.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Y en fin, como olvidar a Julia Roberts en los Globos de Oro de 1990 y su traje de Armani.

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

„pass rates were 54 per cent at 8am, rising to 72 per cent by midday and then dropping to 51 per cent by 4pm“ - that is huge and at least partially attributed to sleep patterns! Data from Italy, known for its quality lunchtime ;-)

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Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

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 www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Changing platforms in Brussels. All seems bigger than I remember (from my studies)!

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Inspiring talk by Martin Stefanec from University of Graz on Unveiling the Logic of the Hive Through Technology. Also a great opportunity to learn new languages! #RoboRoyale

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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!

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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.

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Research Associate / PostDoc (all genders) in Distributed Robotics

TU Darmstadt stands for excellent and relevant science. We are playing a decisive role in shaping far-reaching processes of global change—from energy transition to artificial intelligence—through outs...

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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar Marina Papadopoulou: "Dynamics of collective motion and escape in heterogeneous flocks of homing pigeons" 17th June 2025, @2pm UK time Subscribe to lnkd.in/eCWT2dvF to keep up to date and for information on how to access our seminars!

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

First Call for Papers - ANTS 2026 Darmstadt, Germany | June 8–10, 2026 ants2026.org The 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence invites submissions on the theme: "Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities". 🗓️ Submission deadline: 10 Nov 2025

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Ok it's no secret that I'm a bit late to the LLM game... but I have to say: I have been having a LOT of fun generating videos with Veo 3. Here is a music video (a collage of Veo 3 clips) based on Sprunki mix I made with my son! 🌞🙌🪩🎶 youtu.be/ikMKSfl0MFI?... Enjoy! <3 #veo3 #sprunki Sound on! 👍

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YouTube video by Marc Lanctot

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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Research Associate / PostDoc (all genders) in Distributed Robotics

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Harvard Taught This British Student About Democracy. Now Trump May Force Him Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u... Interesting read (and apparently not behind paywall)!

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Harvard Taught This British Student About Democracy. Now Trump May Force Him Out.

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Michèle Knodt @micheleknodt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Excited to be part of the new Hessen Monitor – studying democracy, division & resilience in Hesse. Backed by the Hessian Ministry, led by an amazing team at @tuda.bsky.social, colleagues from 5 unis at Hesse are teaming up. For a stronger democracy!

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

“Anonymous GitHub” — I just discovered this today. What a great idea!! (Apparently I am the 46,631ˢᵗ to find it.) Provides an anonymized portal to your GitHub respiratory suitable for submission to double-blind review for research conference papers or journal articles. anonymous.4open.science

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Carlo Pinciroli @carlo.pinciroli.net · 02/06/2025

It was a blast to visit the @cbehav.bsky.social ! I am impressed by their concentration of talent and creativity. I am also grateful for the warm hospitality of @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @joefresna.bsky.social, who made this day even more special! Let's write a paper already :-)

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LOEWE emergenCITY @emergencity.de · 27/05/2025

Morgen geht's los mit den öffentlichen Vorträgen im Rahmen unserer #emergenCITYWeek25. Dirk Ringe und Katja Mombaur sind zu Gast. Kurzfristige Anmeldungen nehmen wir für beide Veranstaltungen via press@emergencity.de entgegen.

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Roderich Gross @roderichgross.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Heading back after a wonderful journey taking me to Atlanta (ICRA) and Detroit (AAMAS). Loved every inch of it, including discussions on Steiner trees with ETH Zurich folks just prior to boarding. @aamasconf.bsky.social @genkimiyauchi.bsky.social @salahtalamali.bsky.social @tuda.bsky.social @ethz.ch

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