Raina Zakir

First Call for Papers: ANTS 2026 (15th Int. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence), June 8-10, 2026, Darmstadt, Germany. Single-track meeting. Theme "Reaching beyond – swarm intelligence across systems, disciplines, and communities". 🗓️ Submissions due 10 Nov 2025. ants2026.org

career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU-D… Our resilient cyber-physical systems group at @TUDarmstadt has a 3 year postdoc position available for blue sky science in distributed robotics. Please consider joining the amazing team! Public sector salary (ca. 61k-85k €) plus 30 days annual leave.

Join us at the Cultural Evolution of Planet X: Emergent Creativity and Wisdom of the Crowds workshop at #ALIFE2025! Explore how we design and imagine cultural evolution on an artificial planet X, inspired by cultural evolution in animals.🌌👾 🔗 sites.google.com/view/planetx-a…

We are excited to announce that the 15th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2026) will be taking place on June 8-10, 2026 in Darmstadt, Germany. 📅 Submissions: Nov 10, 2025 📅 Notification: Jan 30, 2026 📅 Conference: June 8-10, 2026 🌐 ants2026.org

It was great presenting our work: 📦🔋“Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints” at the @AAMASconf today! Thanks to @SalahTalamali, @thomaswatteyne, @MicaelCouceiro, @RoderichGross, and @openswarm_eu

A new Science #Robotics study describes BioPD—a control strategy that can mimic how zebrafish swim together and implement them in #autonomous #vehicles for coordinated movements. @icouzin scim.ag/435kWw9

PhD Fellowship – Reinforcement Learning & Robot Swarms IRIDIA, ULB – Brussels, Belgium Fully funded (4 years, €2400/month tax-exempt) Dynamic research environment + travel support Rolling applications – position open until filled! 🔗linkedin.com/jobs/view/4148…

I put some good amount of work into this, so I might as well share it here :) 🎓 Check out my PhD thesis! Leveraging environmental and inter-robot signaling in the automatic modular design of #robot #swarms (2025) 🔗 dgarzonramos.com/docs/Gar2025ph… 🤖 🤖 🤖 >🚦🗺️🐜🐑🎯🧑‍🏫 🧵1/2

Ants and humans share a rare ability: each can work together in groups to mobilize oversized objects. In a new @PNASNews study, Prof. @feinermo and his team explored this, uncovering surprising insights into the strengths and challenges of cooperation >> bit.ly/Ants-human-EN

In a Focus article, Andra Keay highlights the efforts of #WomenInRobotics, a nonprofit community, to support and showcase women and nonbinary people who are interested in working in robotics. @RobotLaunch @womeninroboticz Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4gjPheH

📢 [1/2] We have a ridiculously good #PhDposition on Comparative Analysis of Collective Behaviour: empirical data of animals AND agent-based models AND swarm robotics, with supervisory team from 4 universities across Europe 🤯🤩 Deadline end of February 👇 swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

Plz share and RT widely among your networks: Deadline is Dec 28, 2024 for a very exciting school in the beautiful city of São Paulo Brazil. School on Origins of life, behavior and cognition will take students into a tour de force through state of the art approaches in modeling cellular, biophysical and behavioral systems. We have a great line up of speakers and all info are on the website: ictp-saifr.org/solbc2025/ The school is also just after Carnival :D @CBehav @ictpsaifr @ictpnews @IntBioPhysics

Excited (& a bit terrified) to officially share our #R #package with the world 🤩 swaRmverse provides a pipeline to analyze #collective #motion #data, promoting more comparative work across the Swarm-Verse 🐐🦬🐦🐒🐟 🦖🐑🕸️ With @sjmgarnier @SHOALgroup 🙏 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

We are seeking to recruit a person to study towards a PhD on the topic of modular robots with energy- and force-awareness (ca. >50k EUR salary a year). Application deadline: 11 Nov 2024 career.tu-darmstadt.de/HPv3.Jobs/TU-D… #robotics #phd

Our paper Self-organizing Nervous Systems (SoNS) for Robot Swarms was published in @SciRobotics yesterday! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Using SoNS, entire robot swarms can be programmed as if they were single robots with reconfigurable morphologies. 1/

The submission deadline for the #Swarm intelligence- Collective motions from biology to robotic collection @NatureComms @CommsPhys @CommsEng @natureportfolio is extended to 28 February 2025. Feel free to reach out with your #collection related questions #ArticleCollection

Last week, Alex Pacheco -who just joined our team @SwarmDynamics @CBehav- presented our latest research on #Blockchain -based #MultiRobot systems at #DARS2024 in NYC and later at @MIT_CSAIL in N.Lynch lab! 🇺🇸🤖 Well done, spreading the word!

Designing robot swarms is part puzzle, part problem—and definitely a mess! In this 5-min read, we characterize complexities of designing robot swarms and highlight research goals that are shaping the field. arxiv.org/abs/2410.22478 🤖🧩 In ICRA@40 w/ @sabinehauert, @EIC_EMERGE

Can we make good decisions together when only communicating through our movements? This is what we investigated in our recent iScience paper. 🧵 cell.com/trends/cogniti…

#IROS2024 was truly special, hosted in the Middle East for the first time, right in my hometown of Abu Dhabi! Glad to have won the Best Poster Award at the Trustworthy Human-Swarm Interaction workshop, where I presented highlights on engaging the public with robot swarms.. 1/4