Heiko Hamann
@swarmdynamics.bsky.social
Swarm Robotics 🤖, Swarm Intelligence 🐜, Evolutionary Robotics 🧬, Bio-hybrid Systems 🌱🧍♀️, Machine Behavior ⚙️🦆
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
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
ANTS 2026@ants2026.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 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
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
📢 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!
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: https://t1p.de/4c6cd @icouzin.bsky.social
‘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...
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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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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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!
#ALife #evolution #modeling #simulation
The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio
🎉 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
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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The obvious advantage of doing research with plants. 🌱😁 Many thanks to Eddy!
🚨 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...
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
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 🇮🇹
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
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
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...
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...
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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📣 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... 🧪
Amazon deploys its 1 millionth robot! #swarm #robotics www.aboutamazon.com/news/operati...
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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“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...)
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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One of the greatest geniuses who ever lived on this planet!
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · last yr.Remembering Stanley Kubrick on his birthday today🎥✨
Cat lover Stanley Kubrick and friend Kubrick was BOTD in 1928
Multi-agent systems — ON MARS! Joint Skyfall mission proposal by AeroVironment and JPL.
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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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!
