Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and ...

Bees, ants, and termites build complex structures without blueprints, architects, or construction supervisors. Their colonies produce intricate hives and nests by relying on local cues like warmth, ...

A robotic swarm typically relies on centralized or decentralized power management, but a hybrid approach could offer the best of both.

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Mechatronics unites mechanical structures, electronic actuation and embedded computation into integrated systems capable of perception, decision‐making and physical interaction. Simulation and ...