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

One day, all machine learning will be on factor graphs, not the nasty directed neural networks that are popular at the moment. #FactorisedComputation arxiv.org/abs/2402.12130 frontiersin.org/journals/com… arxiv.org/abs/2311.14649

📢 We are pleased to share our invited speakers for ANTS 2026 (ants2026.org)! Their talks reflect the breadth of the conference — from swarm robotics, networked systems, and collective dynamics to AI, ethics, materials, and planetary futures.

When did "SLAM" show up, and where is it now? 🔍 I vibely built RoboPaper Atlas to see the field evolve. 71,000 robotics papers from ICRA, IROS, RA-L, T-RO, and RSS (1984 ~ 2025), turned into live visualizations Link: gisbi-kim.github.io/robopape…

The AMRC has found its permanent CEO🦾 Ben Morgan, leading as interim CEO of the AMRC since January 2025, will continue to build on our legacy of industrial, economic and regional transformation as we enter our 25th year. Read more about the appointment🔗bit.ly/3ZMuNom

📣 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/

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 annualreviews.org/content/jo…

Her zaman bir adım önde. Türkiye’nin ilk roketinden ilk internete, şimdi Ay’daki ilk izlere…

This is insane. It makes my blood boil. It’s so ridiculous, so petty, so small minded. Truly, what is this about? It’s always about something. ‘Let’s get rid of the Rose Garden. Let’s rename the Kennedy Center.’ What’s next?

🎉Our paper "Context-Aware Deep Lagrangian Networks for MPC" was accepted at #IROS2025! We present CaDeLaC: adaptive physics-consistent robot control via online SysID MPC. 📄arxiv.org/abs/2506.15249 🌐schulze18.github.io/cadelac_… Thanks to @ias_tudarmstadt @Jan_R_Peters @OlegArenz

I am deeply honored and grateful to receive the Alfried Krupp Prize, and incredibly proud to bring this prestigious recognition to Technische Universität Darmstadt for the first time. This award is not only a personal milestone but also a meaningful endorsement of the research we are pursuing in robot perception and learning, toward more structured, intelligent, and embodied robot assistants. It comes at a pivotal time, as we launch our ERC Starting Grant SIREN research, and it offers crucial support to advance our vision: enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex human environments. A heartfelt thank you to the Krupp Foundation for this generous support, to TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI, and to my mentors, collaborators, and brilliant team at PEARL who make this journey so rewarding. I’m especially excited to use this opportunity to grow our research team, and to continue pushing the boundaries of embodied AI together. linkedin.com/posts/krupp-sti…

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

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.

💥 We are thrilled to announce the presence of @ngeniarius1 , along with other #OpenSwarm partners, at automatica 2025, one of the world's premier trade fairs for intelligent automation and robotics. 🤖 @Inria Paris 👉 openswarm.eu/automatica-trad…

Anti ICE protests have arrived in Chicago. Every liberal city in the US is in big trouble. I’m afraid this is only the beginning.

Dear California, Our offer still stands. Love, Canada 🇨🇦❤️

The June issue of Science #Robotics is out! This month's cover depicts a soft robotic #gripper for plant leaves that can perform nondestructive precision #agriculture techniques such as gene editing or nanosensor delivery. scim.ag/3FJww7y

FEMA scraps new hurricane plan, reverting to last year’s guidance despite program cuts and staff reductions. Rest assured they are „laser focused“. Now that they figured there actually is a hurricane season what could possibly go wrong? wsj.com/politics/policy/fema…

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