Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique
ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors. These …

Gras**, in both biological and engineered mechanisms, can be highly sensitive to the
gripper and object morphology, as well as perception and motion planning. Here, we …

When a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their
environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might …

Biological materials dynamically reconfigure their underlying structures in response to
stimuli, achieving adaptability and multifunctionality. Conversely, mechanical metamaterials …

We offer our opinion on the benefits of integration of insights from active matter physics with
principles of regulatory interactions and control to develop a field we term “smart active …

Animals are often faced with time-critical decisions without prior information about their
actions' outcomes. In such scenarios, individuals budget their investment into the task to cut …

Tangled active filaments are ubiquitous in nature, from chromosomal DNA and cilia carpets
to root networks and worm collectives. How activity and elasticity facilitate collective …

Whereas naturally occurring swarms thrive when crowded, physical interactions in robotic
swarms are either avoided or carefully controlled, thus limiting their operational density …

The efficient motility of invertebrates helps them survive under evolutionary pressures.
Reconstructing the locomotion of invertebrates and decoupling the influence of individual …

In the present work, we study, by means of numerical simulations, the structural and
dynamical behavior of a suspension of active ring polymers in bulk and under lateral …