📣 Early-bird registration available until 20 February 2026 (23:59, Central European Time) ANTS 2026 is approaching! Explore the list of plenary talks, perspective talks, and accepted papers on our website: ants2026.org/

Day 2 of bio-hybrid swarm systems summer school at Middle East Technical University kicking off with ⁦@SwarmDynamics talking about natural plants as sensors and human-swarm interaction⁩. ⁦@MetuRomer⁩ ⁦@lorenihas⁩ ⁦@EU_RoboRoyale⁩

Heading back after a wonderful journey taking me to Atlanta (ICRA) and Detroit (AAMAS). Loved every inch of it, including discussions on Steiner trees with ETH Zurich folks just prior to boarding. @discoETH @openswarm_eu @SheffUniEng @TUDarmstadt

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

Welcome to Ecem Işıldar who joins our team as a doctoral researcher in human-swarm interaction. Ecem studied Control & Autom. Engineering at Istanbul Technical University and completed a Robotics Engineering master at University of Genoa ⁦@TUDarmstadt⁩ @Emergen_CITY #RIG

Excited our #AAMAS2025 paper has been selected as Best Paper Award finalist. It studies on-demand delivery with UAVs that learn their capabilities 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2504.08585 🎥 youtu.be/9afhI1pgeI8 @SalahTalamali @genki_miyauchi @thomaswatteyne @MicaelCouceiro @openswarm_eu

Even had they arrived, there simply is no efficient way to mail documents back to Germany. At the last election UPS took 10 days to deliver (I had paid £100 for „guaranteed next day“ delivery). This time documents (of a friend) seem stuck in the German „Briefzentrum“.

Fantastic first day of Robotics Institute Germany meeting at @KITKarlsruhe discussing thematic clusters. Thanks to Tamim Asfour for hosting! #RIG #robotics

Thanks to Danny Hughes and Mengyao Liu from @KU_Leuven for stopping by earlier this week to talk about IoT innovations in swarm robotics & demoing battery-free CapBots, now up and running in our lab (with kind support by @openswarm_eu @CS_TUDarmstadt and emergenCITY)!