We introduce AutoMoDe: a novel approach to the automatic design of control software for
robot swarms. The core idea in AutoMoDe recalls the approach commonly adopted in …

This paper comments on Gallagher's recently published direct perception proposal about
social cognition [Gallagher, S.(2008a). Direct perception in the intersubjective context …

Billions of resources, such as cars, clothes, household appliances and even food are being
connected to the Internet forming the Internet of Things (IoT). Subsets of these resources can …

Is an individual agent constitutive of or constituted by its social interactions? This question is
typically not asked in the cognitive sciences, so strong is the consensus that only individual …

Although swarm robotics is widely recognized as a promising approach to coordinating
large groups of robots, a general methodology for designing collective behaviors for robot …

Two decades of attempts to model the emergence of language as a collective cognitive
activity have demonstrated a number of principles that might have been part of the historical …

The aim of this paper is to consider the relationships between robots and insects. To this
end, an overview is provided of the two main areas in which insects have been implicated in …

Swarm Robotics (SR) is closely related to Swarm Intelligence, and both were initially
inspired by studies of social insects. Their guiding principles are based on their biological …

This paper presents a series of experiments in collective social robotics, spanning more than
10 years, with the long-term aim of building embodied models of (aspects of) cultural …

This work investigates the conditions in which a population of embodied agents evolved for
the ability to display coordinated/cooperative skills can develop an ability to communicate …