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Heiko Hamann

@swarmdynamics.bsky.social
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Swarm Robotics 🤖, Swarm Intelligence 🐜, Evolutionary Robotics 🧬, Bio-hybrid Systems 🌱🧍‍♀️, Machine Behavior ⚙️🦆

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Pranav Kedia @praked.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Accepted at #OCEANS2026 🚀 Our paper, BIND-USBL: Bounding IMU Navigation Drift using USBL in Heterogeneous ASV–AUV Teams, at OCEANS 2026 China. Very glad to have also received a travel grant. Work with Rajini Makam, @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and Suresh Sundaram Link: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11861
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Tanja Kaiser @msminirobot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
ANTS 2026 ist starting in a week. Although I won't be there in person, I'm happy to be a part of it through our contribution "On the Cost of Evolving Task Specialization in Multi-Robot Systems" together with Paolo Lepoardi, @swarmdynamics.bsky.social and @jonaskuresearch.bsky.social
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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The SonoRo robot platform in action at #ANTS2026. Individual robots find/repel each other and show flocking using only their acoustic beacons. This is much like many animal/insect groups. Here we show even simple rules and coarse sensory capabilities give rise to collective behaviour. 1/N
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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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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 13/10/2025
New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity: t1p.de/4c6cd @icouzin.bsky.social
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/10/2025
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’ Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How do flocks of birds move as one? New research from Mohammad Salahshour and Iain Couzin reveals that coordination may arise directly from neural navigation systems (ring attrctr), not behavioural "rules of thumb." ->paradigm shift in understanding collective motion #swarm doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Client Challenge
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Suet Lee @suetl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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!
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#ALife #evolution #modeling #simulation
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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
🎉 Check out our new paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This work highlights the interdisciplinary efforts of the ChronoPilot project and our fruitful collaboration with partners from Konstanz. @haplab.bsky.social
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Brief non-spatial signals facilitate visual search and temporal sensitivity in robot supervision
The human role in human-swarm interaction (HSI) shifts from controller to supervisor, as robots become more autonomous and require efficient search st…
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
„I was once on a German talk show, and this woman said to me, ‘Mr. Williams, why do you think there is not so much comedy in Germany?’ And I said, ‘Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?’“ — Robin Williams #USA #Trump #Kimmel
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The obvious advantage of doing research with plants. 🌱😁 Many thanks to Eddy!
Yummy cherry tomatoes in a bucket.
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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 16/09/2025
🚨 Last days to submit! 🚨 Join the Workshop on Cultural Evolution of Planet X at @alife2025.bsky.social (Kyoto, Oct 7). We welcome abstracts on cultural evolution and emergent culture in artificial systems. Work presented elsewhere too! 📅 Deadline: Sept 20 🔗 sites.google.com/view/planetx...
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
💪💪💪🇪🇺🗽
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Pranav Kedia @praked.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Just submitted the manuscript for the 2nd edition of Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach 🎉 ✅ ~2× the size ✅ fully updated with latest research ✅ ready4the breakthrough years ahead Thanks to all who supported! Now in production—stay tuned. Now it's in production – stay tuned. #swarm #robotics #book
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Giovanni Reina @joefresna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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 🇮🇹
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Giovanni Reina @joefresna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
From Random Notes to Emergent Orchestras. Lluc Bono presents at @css-conference.bsky.social our latest results on creating a robot swarm that composes & performs musical pieces. A framework to study emergence of creativity in music through artificial physical agents @cbehav.bsky.social #CCS2025
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Giovanni Reina @joefresna.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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
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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New Episode! What is it like being inside an egg? Can you feel your sibling eggs nearby? How do you tell your parents when you are ready to come out? Dr Gabriella Gall is here to tell us all about her research into the world of egg communication. www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 27/08/2025
Coppola Champions Herzog at Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: ‘If Werner Has Limits, I Don’t Know What They Are’ www.indiewire.com/news/festiva...
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Coppola Champions Herzog at Venice Film Festival Opening Ceremony: ‘If Werner Has Limits, I Don’t Know What They Are’
'If Werner [Herzog] has limits, I don't know what they are,' said the Golden Lion recipient's friend Francis Ford Coppola at the Venice opening.
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Independence Day of Ukraine Fight for freedom Never give up
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
📣 Interested in cultural evolution and artificial life? Call for abstracts for our upcoming workshop at @alife2025.bsky.social. Accepted abstracts will be presented as flash talks, and are not archival. Deadline is the September 12, w/ rolling acceptance. Details: sites.google.com/view/planetx... 🧪
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot! #swarm #robotics www.aboutamazon.com/news/operati...
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Amazon launches a new AI foundation model to power its robotic fleet and deploys its 1 millionth robot
New AI technology will make the world's largest fleet of industrial mobile robots smarter and more efficient.
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower” Overview post on “Pivot to AI” by David Gerard (pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/a...) Via Anthony Bucci on LinkedIn. Research post from METR by Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes, and David Rein. (metr.org/blog/2025-07...)
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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
One of the greatest geniuses who ever lived on this planet!
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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Cat lover Stanley Kubrick and friend Kubrick was BOTD in 1928
Black and white photo of Stanley Kubrick scratching the head of the cat in his lap.
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𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
remembering Stanley Kubrick on his birthday 🐐 #filmsky
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Multi-agent systems — ON MARS! Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
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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.
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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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Khulud Alharthi @khuludalharthi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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
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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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
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Carlo Pinciroli @carlo.pinciroli.net · 17/04/2025
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!
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ALIFE Conference 2025 @alife2025.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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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.
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Tony Prescott @tonyjprescott.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
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PLENARY SPEAKERS - Living Machines 2025
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#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
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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
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Universität Konstanz @uni-konstanz.de · 28/03/2025
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...
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Konstanzer Wissenschaftsforum: "Wasser im Wandel – von Quellen, Quaggamuscheln und Querelen"
YouTube video by Universität Konstanz
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Thomas Jefferson on November 13, 1787
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J.L. Butterworth, author @jbcreates.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's like when you do that awkward dance with someone when you're each trying to get out of the other's way
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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CapBot: Enabling Battery-Free Swarm Robotics
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
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Giovanni Reina @joefresna.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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
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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 08/03/2025
It was great to have you around! Awesome things happening in Konstanz :)
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Müge Cavdan @mugecavdan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#ChronoPilot meeting started with scenario discussions ⏳ 🫳🏽👁👂🏼 @haplab.bsky.social @argirovatakis.bsky.social @swarmdynamics.bsky.social @haplab.bsky.social
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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...
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Locust swarms call for a rewrite of the swarming rules
YouTube video by Collective Behaviour
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If you want to get a fast intro to or update of the state of the art in #swarm #robotics, then check out the proceedings of last year's "ANTS" conference: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Swarm Intelligence
The ANTS 2024 proceedings deal with swarm intelligence focusing on self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems.
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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
"No, no more pity for the pitiless! There will be no peace on this Russian land until the corpses of the tsars and barons lie beneath it; there will be no human and moral order until we enforce it." -- Stefan Zweig, Decisive Moments in History The Flight to God, extra act2Tolstoy's The Light Shines
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Warpsol @warpsol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hope your day is going well, look at my robot!
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