WHO of these two will lead the Labour party into the future??
Roderich Gross
@roderichgross.bsky.social
Professor at TU Darmstadt. #robotics. Head of Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems
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...
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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Wonderful weather in Darmstadt enjoying Hundertwasser Waldspirale
7 days till ANTS 2026 is starting! 🐜🐝🐠🤖🤖🛜@tuda.bsky.social
ANTS 2026@ants2026.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎬 The ANTS 2026 conference trailer is now out. Get a glimpse of what’s ahead for ANTS 2026 in Darmstadt from 8 - 10 June. @tuda.bsky.social #swarm #AI #robotics #networks #optimization #Germany Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DN_...
📘 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...
📢 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
One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas hobs and ovens
Cancer-causing chemical found to be leaking from gas cookers
One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas hobs and ovens
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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. 🐜🤖🌃🐝📱💻👥👾🕹️🤖🐠🐠🙋♀️🙋⚗️🎨🎶
ANTS 2026@ants2026.bsky.social · 5mo ago📢 ANTS 2026 Late Breaking Results & Fresh Perspectives deadline extended to 3 April 2026! We welcome contributions related to collective behaviour or self-organised systems, natural or artificial, from across disciplines.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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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).
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
📢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
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
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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📣 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.
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”
Erdős Problems Blog - A new blog and a site retrospective
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New Scientist@newscientist.com · 7mo agoProfessional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathematics
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
Client Challenge
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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
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.
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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This is a highly innovative robot design, and the application in mind somewhat different from the usual “search and rescue” 😀
IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 10mo agoTasty battery included! https://spectrum.ieee.org/soft-edible-robot?share_id=9049415
📢 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!
📢 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!
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
🐜 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.
Y en fin, como olvidar a Julia Roberts en los Globos de Oro de 1990 y su traje de Armani.
Fox finds raccoons in henhouse. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/07...
Frontiers' Research Integrity team uncovers peer review manipulation network
Frontiers Research Integrity Auditing team has uncovered a network of authors and editors who conducted peer review with undisclosed conflicts of interest and w
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„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 ;-)
New Scientist@newscientist.com · last yr.The time you take an oral exam could make all the difference between whether you pass or fail.