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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

• From the series

Cellular Automata

• Act I Part 1: The Game with No Player
• Act I Part 2: The Self-Replicating Machine
• Act I Part 3: What is a Cellular Automaton - and How Many Worlds Are There?

Researchers have built an active material whose robotic components spontaneously synchronise their movements without instructions from a central controller.

22-Oct-2026

The tenth IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics has opened extended-abstract submissions and is seeking proposals for specialist workshops and tutorials.

22-Oct-2026

Social-network researcher Damon Centola challenges conventional assumptions about groupthink in an extended feature accompanying his new book, Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence.

22-Oct-2026

An interdisciplinary symposium in Berlin will examine whether intelligence across radically different biological and artificial systems shares common organisational principles.

18-Oct-2026

A proposed spacecraft-swarm architecture enables miniature satellites to coordinate their orbital positions without conventional propulsion or continuous ground control.

18-Oct-2026

A European Space Agency laboratory experiment is testing whether cooperating autonomous robots can surround and track an uncontrolled object in conditions resembling orbital weightlessness.

18-Oct-2026

One of the principal international meetings devoted specifically to distributed autonomous robotics takes place in Tokyo from 26 to 29 October 2026.

18-Oct-2026

Autonomous agents can develop a common communication language through repeated local interactions, without a central computer establishing vocabulary or rules.

18-Oct-2026

Researchers have directly visualised and measured individual pheromone deposits made by ants, revealing that the chemical building blocks of collective trails are far less uniform than previously assumed.

17-Oct-2026

Coastal dune systems develop large-scale spatial patterns through feedback between vegetation density and the movement of sand.

17-Oct-2026