Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

Living organisms are far superior to state-of-the-art robots as they have evolved a wide
number of capabilities that far encompass our most advanced technologies. The merging of …

Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

Highlights•Value-sensitivity plays a pivotal role in (collective) decision making and suggests
a speed-value tradeoff.•Combining nutrition and collective decision making may provide a …

Rapid technical advances in the field of computer animation (CA) and virtual reality (VR)
have opened new avenues in animal behavior research. Animated stimuli are powerful tools …

Recent advancements in deep learning have profoundly impacted the field of animal
behavioral research, offering researchers powerful tools for understanding the complexities …

Shepherding, the task of guiding a herd of autonomous individuals in a desired direction, is
an essential skill employed in the herding of animals, crowd control, and evacuation …

Honey bees live in colonies of thousands of individuals, that not only need to collaborate
with each other but also to interact intensively with their ecosystem. A small group of robots …

Self-organized collective behavior has been analyzed in diverse types of gregarious
animals. Such collective intelligence emerges from the synergy between individuals, which …

The core idea in an XR (VR/MR/AR) application is to digitally stimulate one or more sensory
systems (eg visual, auditory, olfactory) of the human user in an interactive way to achieve an …