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A fish school may achieve coordinated movement without each fish tracking a crowd of neighbours.

31-Oct-2026

A simulated lunar robot swarm has independently developed two cooperative survival behaviours resembling those of emperor penguins.

30-Oct-2026

A distributed drone-search framework addresses the difficulty of maintaining coordinated flight when satellite navigation is unavailable.

30-Oct-2026

Researchers argue that decentralised AI societies face a coordination problem fundamentally different from ordinary message delivery.

30-Oct-2026

Researchers have demonstrated a decentralised security mechanism that allows cooperating robots to reject malicious information while continuing to trust legitimate neighbours.

28-Oct-2026

A new mathematical analysis establishes a surprising equivalence between collective decision-making in bee swarms and reinforcement learning.

28-Oct-2026

Researchers have developed a method for robotic swarms to construct collective shapes through local interactions rather than a predefined deployment-wide attachment list.

28-Oct-2026

Networks of autonomous language-model agents can develop polarised social structures through repeated local interactions, without being instructed to form opposing groups.

28-Oct-2026

A Clearer Map of Adaptive-Emergent Adaptive-Emergent has undergone a little housekeeping. After accumulating more than 200 articles, it was time to rethink how they are organised, and particularly how we distinguish between the kind of article being published and the ideas it explores.

25-Oct-2026

A newly dated conference programme reveals substantial research activity in decentralised space robotics and cooperative planetary exploration.

24-Oct-2026

Act I Part 1: The Game with No Player The adaptive-emergent blog has over 100 posts on swarm and natural intelligence: communication even though some of these describe the most basic microbial life. In many cases we can model this behaviour as algorithms: what appears as intention is in fact mathematics. In this series on cellular automata, we delve deeper into the numbers.

Updated 22-Oct-2026

Marine animals repeatedly evolve collective behaviours because their shared environment rewards coordinated responses to food scarcity, predation and physical conditions.

22-Oct-2026