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Raina Zakir retweeted
First Call for Papers: ANTS 2026 (15th Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence), June 8-10, 2026, Darmstadt, Germany. Single-track meeting. Theme "Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities". 🗓️ Submissions due 10 Nov 2025. ants2026.org
Raina Zakir retweeted
career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.… Our resilient cyber-physical systems group at @TUDarmstadt has a 3 year postdoc position available for blue sky science in distributed robotics. Please consider joining the amazing team! Public sector salary (ca. 61k-85k €) plus 30 days annual leave.
Raina Zakir retweeted
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, inspired by cultural evolution in animals.🌌👾
🔗 sites.google.com/view/planet…
Raina Zakir retweeted
We are excited to announce that the 15th 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
Raina Zakir retweeted
It was great presenting our work:
📦🔋“Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints”
at the @AAMASconf today!
Thanks to @SalahTalamali, @thomaswatteyne, @MicaelCouceiro, @RoderichGross, and @openswarm_eu
Raina Zakir retweeted
A new Science #Robotics study describes BioPD—a control strategy that can mimic how zebrafish swim together and implement them in #autonomous #vehicles for coordinated movements. @icouzin scim.ag/435kWw9
Raina Zakir retweeted
PhD Fellowship – Reinforcement Learning & Robot Swarms
IRIDIA, ULB – Brussels, Belgium
Fully funded (4 years, €2400/month tax-exempt)
Dynamic research environment + travel support
Rolling applications – position open until filled!
🔗linkedin.com/jobs/view/41486…
Raina Zakir retweeted
I put some good amount of work into this, so I might as well share it here :)
🎓 Check out my PhD thesis!
Leveraging environmental and inter-robot signaling in the automatic modular design of #robot #swarms
(2025)
🔗 dgarzonramos.com/docs/Gar202…
🤖 🤖 🤖 >🚦🗺️🐜🐑🎯🧑🏫
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Raina Zakir retweeted
Ants and humans share a rare ability: each can work together in groups to mobilize oversized objects. In a new @PNASNews study, Prof. @feinermo and his team explored this, uncovering surprising insights into the strengths and challenges of cooperation >> bit.ly/Ants-human-EN
Raina Zakir retweeted
In a Focus article, Andra Keay highlights the efforts of #WomenInRobotics, a nonprofit community, to support and showcase women and nonbinary people who are interested in working in robotics. @RobotLaunch @womeninroboticz
Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4gjPheH
ALT Quote by Andra Keay stating, "Robotics history is still HIS story, but Women in Robotics is working hard to include HER story in the future of robotics," set on a black background with white and red text.
Raina Zakir retweeted
📢 [1/2] We have a ridiculously good #PhDposition on Comparative Analysis of Collective Behaviour: empirical data of animals AND agent-based models AND swarm robotics, with supervisory team from 4 universities across Europe 🤯🤩
Deadline end of February 👇
swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…
Raina Zakir retweeted
Plz share and RT widely among your networks:
Deadline is Dec 28, 2024 for a very exciting school in the beautiful city of São Paulo Brazil.
School on Origins of life, behavior and cognition will take students into a tour de force through state of the art approaches in modeling cellular, biophysical and behavioral systems. We have a great line up of speakers and all info are on the website:
ictp-saifr.org/solbc2025/
The school is also just after Carnival :D
@CBehav @ictpsaifr @ictpnews @IntBioPhysics
Raina Zakir retweeted
Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️
With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Raina Zakir retweeted
We are seeking to recruit a person to study towards a PhD on the topic of modular robots with energy- and force-awareness (ca. >50k EUR salary a year). Application deadline: 11 Nov 2024 career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.… #robotics #phd
Raina Zakir retweeted
Our paper
Self-organizing Nervous Systems (SoNS) for Robot Swarms
was published in @SciRobotics yesterday!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…
Using SoNS, entire robot swarms can be programmed as if they were single robots with reconfigurable morphologies.
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Raina Zakir retweeted
The submission deadline for the #Swarm intelligence- Collective motions from biology to robotic collection @NatureComms @CommsPhys @CommsEng @natureportfolio is extended to 28 February 2025. Feel free to reach out with your #collection related questions #ArticleCollection
What can we learn from swarm behavior and implement it to perform diverse tasks in various environments? @NatureComms calls for papers on Swarm Intelligence #Swarm #intelligence #Collective #Collections
Learn more about the collection:
nature.com/collections/cgbgj…
Raina Zakir retweeted
Last week, Alex Pacheco -who just joined our team @SwarmDynamics @CBehav- presented our latest research on #Blockchain -based #MultiRobot systems at #DARS2024 in NYC and later at @MIT_CSAIL in N.Lynch lab! 🇺🇸🤖
Well done, spreading the word!
Raina Zakir retweeted
Designing robot swarms is part puzzle, part problem—and definitely a mess!
In this 5-min read, we characterize complexities of designing robot swarms and highlight research goals that are shaping the field.
arxiv.org/abs/2410.22478
🤖🧩
In ICRA@40 w/ @sabinehauert, @EIC_EMERGE
Raina Zakir retweeted
Can we make good decisions together when only communicating through our movements? This is what we investigated in our recent iScience paper. 🧵
cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
Raina Zakir retweeted
#IROS2024 was truly special, hosted in the Middle East for the first time, right in my hometown of Abu Dhabi! Glad to have won the Best Poster Award at the Trustworthy Human-Swarm Interaction workshop, where I presented highlights on engaging the public with robot swarms.. 1/4
