as opposed to centralized control, in complex systems." "This work blurs the lines between a robot's physical form, its behavior and its environment," Gu added. "Loopy could fundamentally alter ...

is yet another robot built to emulate a behavior seen in nature: bats and owls using their wings to both fly and climb or perch onto trees. The PercHug robot is designed with dual-purpose hinged ...

Some insects can flap their wings so rapidly that it’s impossible for instructions from their brains to entirely control the behaviour. Building tiny flapping robots has helped researchers shed ...

a team of coders from Bath University presented a paper revealing how even “designers have difficulty decoding the behaviour of their own robots simply by observing them”. The Bath researchers ...

"While this kind of behaviour has been seen in groups of living animals ranging from insects to vertebrates, this study shows that autonomous robots can be used to study and control group ...

A common way of training a robot is known as reinforcement learning (RL). This can be thought of as the “good bot” versus “bad bot” approach. The robot’s control software is “rewarded ...

Bee populations are on the decline, and studies have linked this to the use of pesticides containing neonicotinoid compounds, which can impact insect behavior. Researchers built a robotic platform ...

Since the dawn of animal behavior research ... one of the actors is not a real animal, but a robot. Under the control of researchers, these bots socialize with flesh and blood creatures in ...