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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · 1d

What would you love to know about #robot ethics? 🤖

Later this season, I'll be chatting to Prof. Alan Winfield (@alan-winfield.bsky.social) from @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in robotics.

Send me your questions for Alan in the comments!

A photo of Alan looking happy, wearing a beige t-shirt and glasses.

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Suet Lee @suetl.bsky.social · 2d

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!

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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 6d

🙌 Thanks to Juan Camilo López Vargas, Edwin Garavito, Germán A. Díaz, Eliana Peña & Laura Daniela Garcés C. for great conversations on robotics, manufacturing, optimization, finance & Santander’s culture.

👉 Working together to make robot swarms practical off-the-shelf systems.

David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 6d

🇨🇴 A follow-up to my days in Colombia: How can robot swarms be incorporated into production schedules and manufacturing workflows?

Huge thanks to Universidad Industrial de Santander for hosting me to brainstorm with faculty, students & the OPALO group on robots, collective intelligence & industry.

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 8d

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real
Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 14d

🚨 Calling all Swarm Roboticists! 🚨

The npj Robotics Collection on Swarm Robotics is open for submissions! (Nature Portfolio)

We welcome contributions on physical robot swarms — methods, platforms, applications, and human aspects.

🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Thanks for sharing and reposting!

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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 20d

Huge thanks to Profs. W. Achicanoy, A. Pantoja, J. Revelo & C. Viteri for believing in this plan, and to the amazing students who brought ATRIZ to life. 🙏

Acknowledgments to Universidad de Nariño and its Departamento de Electrónica (Convocatoria Docente 2022, Project No. 2703).

David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 20d

ATRIZ now has infrastructure & robots on par with leading swarm labs 🌍.

It builds on work I started during my PhD in Belgium with M. Kegeleirs and M. Birattari at IRIDIA 🇧🇪, now being deployed in Latin America to grow the regional swarm robotics community.

Exciting to see it take shape! 🚀

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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 20d

🐝 Swarmies in Colombia! 🇨🇴🤖

Back home for a one-week workshop launching ATRIZ, the new swarm robotics lab I have been helping build at Universidad de Nariño, Colombia.

After 5 years of effort, MSc students now get hands-on with multi-robot systems, team-based learning, and collective robotics.

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David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 22d

@sabinehauert.bsky.social @swarmdynamics.bsky.social @khuludalharthi.bsky.social @suetl.bsky.social @dgarzonramos.com @mchimento.bsky.social @ai4cihub.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social

David Garzón Ramos @dgarzonramos.com · 22d

🚨 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...

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Giovanni Reina @joefresna.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣 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... 🧪

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Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · Jul 25

Applications close in one week. Join our dynamic and growing Centre @soham-centre.bsky.social if you’re passionate about AI-enhanced collective intelligence.

Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social · Jul 7

Join our Centre for Sociology of Humans & Machines (SOHAM) at Trinity College Dublin as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, exploring how AI can enhance collective intelligence. We're looking for someone with strong computational skills & a passion for human-machine systems
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

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fmrico @fmrico.bsky.social · Jun 21

The second edition of my book will be released on the 4th of July.

The book, updated to rolling/kilted, includes two new chapters:

1) Deep ROS 2: Executors, execution model, callback groups and Real-Time.
2) Contributing to ROS 2 software (licenses, git, .)

I hope you like 🤓

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Khulud Alharthi @khuludalharthi.bsky.social · Jun 16

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, drawing inspiration from cultural evolution in animals on Earth. 🌌👾
🔗 Details: lnkd.in/eg32maqs

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · May 31

Much of the AI hype is hype. Most or all food delivery robots are driven by low cost remote workers. Waymo admits that every two miles or so there is a human intervention. Humanoids demos are tele-oped. Here is an AI powered coding app revealed. How many others? www.businesstoday.in/technology/n...

'700 Indian engineers posed as AI': The London startup that took Microsoft for a ride - BusinessToday

The unraveling began when creditor Viola Credit, which lent Builder.ai $50 million in 2023, seized $37 million from its accounts after the company defaulted.

www.businesstoday.in

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Jeff Clune @jeffclune.com · May 30

Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code.

sakanaai.bsky.social @sakanaai.bsky.social · May 30

Introducing The Darwin Gödel Machine

sakana.ai/dgm

The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants, allowing for open-ended exploration of the vast design space of such self-improving agents.

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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · May 26

Today we’re excited to welcome @jonaskuresearch.bsky.social from @uni-konstanz.de to our next CASCB Talk! Join us at 12:00 to explore how swarms of robots learn complex behaviours via modular design, imitation learning & open-ended techniques.
📍 ZT 702 & online

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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · May 21

Our next Collective Behaviour Online Seminar #CollBehavSeminar is a double act! @palinabartash.bsky.social & David Bierbach "Collective air-breathing in the largest freshwater fish on Earth"
3rd June 2025, @2pm UK time.
Subscribe to lists.uu.se/sympa/subscr... to keep up to date on our seminars!

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ANTS 2026 @ants2026.bsky.social · May 19

We are excited to announce that the Fifteenth 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

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Clément Moulin-Frier @clemmoulinfrier.bsky.social · May 14

Cool videos from our new paper applying Diversity Search to Flow-Lenia to explore a vast space of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Preprint paper, dataset and online visualization tool soon available, stay tuned!
I'll present this and other Lenia experiments on May 27 at www.dem.eco
#ALife #Open-endedness

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Robot Talk @robottalkpod.bsky.social · May 6

Computer scientists at the University of Bath have proposed over 100 ways to reprogram domestic cleaning robots to complete additional household tasks, including watering the plants, bringing groceries in from the car, or even playing with the cat! 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-04... #Robots #Robotics

Repurposed Roombas: Scientists program domestic robots for additional household tasks

At a time when we run ourselves ragged to meet society's expectations of productivity, performance and time optimization, is it right that our robot vacuum cleaners and other smart appliances should s...

techxplore.com

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Heiko Hamann @swarmdynamics.bsky.social · May 2

Swarming in the Wild: A Distributed
Communication-less Lloyd-based Algorithm dealing
with Uncertainties

by Manuel Boldrer, Vít Krátký, Viktor Walter, Martin Saska

Fully distributed #UAV swarming in forests; no comms, no GPS, just onboard sensors. It works! :)

#swarm
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.18840

arxiv.org

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · May 2

Liang Li and team have developed a VR system for fish to decipher how they school. The team uncovered the natural ‘control law’ used by zebrafish to coordinate behavior with others.

@icouzin.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de @cbehav.bsky.social

Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality

Reverse engineering the control law used by schooling fish provides an effective and robust algorithm for robotic pursuit.

www.science.org

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