Hereafter are two videos showing bio-inspired swarm robotics behaviours implemented with e-puck robots by the students of the swarm robotics atelier at the EAIA’07 summerschool on collective robotics. The first behaviour is inspired by the collective choice of shelters displayed by cockroaches. The video shows only a part of the process, during which a group [...]

Et voici l’affiche annonçant la tenue du colloque annuel de la section française de l’UIEIS dans quelques jours à Toulouse. Retrouvez cette affiche en haute définition, ainsi que le programme complet du colloque sur le site du CRCA.

A special issue of Swarm Intelligence will be soon dedicated to Swarm Robotics. The editors are Erol Sahin and Alan Winfield, and the submission deadline is December 1, 2007. All the necessary information can be found at http://swarm-robotics.org/swrm/ .

Do you need a funny break between two boring talks at the last conference about swarm intelligence? Try "The Boids!", by Campbell & Merrill. To my knowledge, it is the first swarm intelligent comic strip ever written.
The Boids is the story of Flock Unit 2A-6, known to his pals as “Boid.” Boid is a [...]

My internet peregrinations drive me to this surprising page on Apple website. Apple is associated with the Evolutionary & Swarm Design Group at the University of Calgary (director Christian Jacob) to "apply the latest developments in swarm theory and evolutionary computation to a broad array of real-world phenomena". Perhaps should I ask Apple for a [...]

Good news, at least for me. The article called "The Embodiment of Cockroach Aggregation Behavior in a Group of Micro-Robots" I wrote with Christian Jost, Jacques Gautrais, Raphaël Jeanson, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Anne Grimal and Guy Theraulaz (take a breath) has been accepted for publication in Artificial Life. I still have to address some [...]