The research progress of swarm robotics is reviewed in details. The swarm robotics inspired
from nature is a combination of swarm intelligence and robotics, which shows a great …

In recent years, the concept of self-organization has been used to understand collective
behaviour of animals. The central tenet of self-organization is that simple repeated …

In this Letter, we explore experimentally the phase behavior of a dense active suspension of
self-propelled colloids. In addition to a solidlike and gaslike phase observed for high and …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

The roots of swarm intelligence are deeply embedded in the biological study of self-
organized behaviors in social insects. From the routing of traffic in telecommunication …

Equipped with a mini brain smaller than one cubic millimeter and containing only 950,000
neurons, honeybees could be indeed considered as having rather limited cognitive abilities …

Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--
have long helped to explain physics concepts, such as why water freezes into a solid or …

Traffic-like collective movements are observed at almost all levels of biological systems.
Molecular motor proteins like, for example, kinesin and dynein, which are the vehicles of …

The mysterious 'fairy circles' are vegetation‐free discs that cover vast areas along the pro‐
Namib Desert. Despite 30 yr of research their origin remains unknown. Here we adopt a …

The concerted responses of eusocial insects to environmental stimuli are often referred to as
collective cognition at the level of the colony. To achieve collective cognition, a group can …