A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Active matter physics is about systems in which energy is dissipated at some local level to
produce work. This is a generic situation, particularly in the living world but not only. What is …

Aiming at improving the efficiency of reconfiguration of mobile modular robots, the optimal
reconfiguration planning and parallel control method are proposed in this work. The number …

The human eye is bored by monotonous landscapes. We are depressed by gray skies,
unending plains under the wing of an airliner, featureless urban sprawl, geometric …

Collective behavior in biological systems is a complex topic, to say the least. It runs wildly
across scales in both space and time, involving taxonomically vastly different organisms …

It is beneficial for collective structures to simultaneously have high persistence to
environmental noise and high responsivity to nontrivial external stimuli. However, without …

Synchronization, the temporal coordination of coupled oscillators, allows fireflies to flash in
unison, neurons to fire collectively, and human crowds to fall in step on the London …

Systems comprised of self-steering active Brownian particles are studied via simulations for
a minimal cognitive flocking model. The dynamics of the active Brownian particles is …

Behavioral contagion and the presence of behavioral cascades are natural features in
groups of animals showing collective motion, such as schooling fish or grazing herbivores …

We present a quantitative assessment of the Toner and Tu theory describing the universal
scaling of fluctuations in polar phases of dry active matter. Using large-scale simulations of …