May 2026 (25)
- A milestone - demos! —
- Can this plant actually see? —
- Bee-inspired navigation robot pinpoints its home using a neural network —
- AI-powered military drones and the future of warfare —
- European Telecom Consortium Tests Ant-Inspired Self-Healing Network Routing —
- Swarm Robotic Warehouse Picking Systems —
- (3 links) Swarmer Becomes First Ukrainian Defense Company to Go Public on Nasdaq —
- Applied Intuition UK Awarded Dstl Contract to Lead Consortium Accelerating Cutting-Edge Swarming Capabilities —
- Bio-inspired Decentralized Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles —
- Just call these tiny autonomous construction robots “antdroids” —
- Honeybee-inspired swarm framework targets resilient planetary exploration —
- Blinking like Fireflies - Convolutional neural networks for bio-inspired visible light communication between nano-drones —
- Washington Post - An American industrial revolution is brewing. I saw it in Pittsburgh. —
- Swarm Robotics Is Getting Serious And the Community Needs to Pay Attention —
- DolphinGemma - How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication —
- Bats Inspire Advance in Aerial Robots —
- Birds and monkeys in the Amazon share information via ‘internet of the forest’ —
- Drone swarm coordination patent landscape 2026 —
- Robot snails, bio-inspired robots that team up! —
- Self-organizing drone swarm architecture targets infrastructure inspection at industrial scale —
- Ant-inspired swarm robotics strategies move toward operational mining automation —
- Robot swarms may gain autonomous coordination through large-scale AI integration —
- Biomimicry Institute launches AskNature podcast focused on applied biological design —
- Butterfly-inspired micro-drone demonstrates stable untethered flight for confined environments —
- AUV patent landscape reveals shift toward swarm-coordinated underwater robotics —
April 2026 (22)
- A bio-inspired swarm UAV framework integrating thermal sensing and optimization-based coordination for efficient search and rescue operations —
- Bioinspired and biobased 4D-printing for adaptive building facades —
- Hullbot Autonomous Ship Hull Cleaning System —
- “Like liquid metal Scientists create strange shape-shifting material" —
- Robotic fish prototype cuts aquaculture stress while enabling real-time sensing —
- This simple change stops robot swarms from getting stuck —
- Bee propolis shuts down raised scars before they take hold —
- Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds —
- German startup develops cyborg insect swarms for NATO forces —
- Palladyne AI Secures U.S. Patent for Advanced Swarming and Autonomy Technology —
- Bioengineering plants glow light cities —
- NATO receives its first swarms of bioelectronic reconnaissance insects —
- Mechanical swarm systems point toward computation-free coordination —
- Smartest robots may be the “dumbest” ones —
- Swarm robots that “bloom” could enable adaptive building skins —
- Bee-brain-inspired navigation chips for tiny robots and sensors —
- Grasshopper-inspired glider wing research with direct drone relevance —
- MIT’s bumblebee-like aerial microrobot —
- Moth-wing-inspired acoustics moving toward spinout —
- Sparxell raises funding to scale plant-based structural colour —
- This paint changes colors when hit, revealing location and strength of impact —
- Insect-inspired odor-tracking robot built for resilience —
March 2026 (19)
- Ant-Inspired Robots Using Pheromone-Based Communication (COS-phi system) —
- Automatic Design of Stigmergy-Based Behaviours for Robot Swarms —
- A Unified Stochastic Mechanism Underlying Collective Behavior in Ants, Physical Systems, and Robotic Swarms —
- A Concept for Bio-Agentic Visual Communication —
- Below‑Ground Ants Follow Pheromones More Quickly Under Reduced Sensory Noise —
- Biomimicry Institute – Ray of Hope Accelerator —
- Consensus-Achieving Algorithm for Robot Swarms Inspired by Ant Collective Decision-Making —
- Dancing on the Edge: Honey Bee Recruitment Networks Are Structured and Dynamic —
- Honeybees Use Dance Communication to Form Expectations About Landscapes —
- Collective Intelligence in Animals and Robots —
- Insect-Scale Robots with Embodied Intelligence —
- Consensus-Achieving Algorithm for Robot Swarms Inspired by Ant Collective Decision-Making —
- How AI and New Sensing Tools Are Reshaping Collective Animal Behavior Research —
- Pheromone-Focused Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Path Planning —
- ANTS 2026 – International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (research track highlights / proceedings pipeline) —
- Future Direction-Aware Flocking via Velocity Prediction —
- Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics – Research Highlights —
- Birdsong Study Offers New Insight into the Power of Non-Artificial Intelligence —
- Emotional Modulation in Swarm Decision Dynamics —