BABOTS: The design and control of small swarming biological animal robots

Informacje na temat projektu

BABOTS

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101098722

DOI

10.3030/101098722

Data podpisania przez KE 13 Grudnia 2022

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Października 2023

Data zakończenia 30 Września 2027

Finansowanie w ramach

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Koszt całkowity

€ 3 251 081,25

Wkład UE

€ 3 251 081,00

Koordynowany przez

UNIVERSITE DE NAMUR
Belgium

CORDIS oferuje możliwość skorzystania z odnośników do publicznie dostępnych publikacji i rezultatów projektów realizowanych w ramach programów ramowych HORYZONT.

Odnośniki do rezultatów i publikacji związanych z poszczególnymi projektami 7PR, a także odnośniki do niektórych konkretnych kategorii wyników, takich jak zbiory danych i oprogramowanie, są dynamicznie pobierane z systemu OpenAIRE .

Rezultaty

Documents, reports (6)

Ethics framework (Part I)

Comprehensive ethics framework covering BABots research, development, and possible future applications (T4.1)

RP1 Quality assessment reports

Update on the assessment of management activities/ advancement, risk analysis, contingency measures (T6.5)

RP2 Quality Assessment Reports

Update of the assessment of management activities/advancement, risk analysis,contingency measures (T6.5)

Website and project logo

Website and project logo information with also social media link

Quality assessment reports

Assessment of management activities/advancement, risk analysis, contingency measures (T6.5)

Prototype of natural/virtual chemical gradients (Report)

Efficacy of microfluidic/optogenetictechnologies in chemosensory environments(T2.1)

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Prototype of natural/virtual chemical gradients (Video)

Demonstration of the efficacy of microfluidic/optogenetic technologies in chemosensory environments (T2.1)

Publikacje

Peer reviewed articles (33)

Geometrical Structure of Bifurcations during Spatial Decision-Making

Autorzy: Dan Gorbonos, Nir S. Gov, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: PRX Life, Numer 2, 2024, ISSN 2835-8279
Wydawca: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PRXLife.2.013008

Understanding neural circuit function through synaptic engineering

Autorzy: Ithai Rabinowitch, Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Michael Krieg
Opublikowane w: Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Numer 25, 2024, ISSN 1471-003X
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41583-023-00777-8

Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes

Autorzy: Daniela M. Perez, Ryan Greenway, Thomas Stier, Narcís Font-Massot, Assaf Pertzelan, Siyu Serena Ding
Opublikowane w: Current Biology, Numer 35, 2025, ISSN 0960-9822
Wydawca: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2025.05.026

Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

Autorzy: Lior Lebovich; Tom Alisch; Edward S. Redhead; Matthew O. Parker; Yonatan Loewenstein; Iain D. Couzin; Benjamin L. de Bivort
Opublikowane w: bioRxiv, 2024, ISSN 2692-8205
Wydawca: openRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.04.611038

On turning maneuverability in self-propelled burst-and-coast swimming

Autorzy: Li-Ming Chao, Iain D. Couzin, Liang Li
Opublikowane w: Physics of Fluids, Numer 36, 2025, ISSN 1070-6631
Wydawca: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0237171

Collective intelligence in animals and robots

Autorzy: Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Nature Communications, Numer 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-65814-9

An effective hydrodynamic description of marching locusts

Autorzy: Dan Gorbonos, Felix B Oberhauser, Luke L Costello, Yannick Günzel, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Benjamin Koger, Iain D Couzin
Opublikowane w: Physical Biology, Numer 21, 2024, ISSN 1478-3967
Wydawca: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ad2219

Virtual reality as an alternative to reproduction

Autorzy: Häyry Matti
Opublikowane w: Discover Artificial Intelligence, Numer 5(3), 2025, ISSN 2731-0809
Wydawca: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S44163-024-00220-6

Roadmap for animate matter

Autorzy: Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A M Araújo, Maria Guix, Mark Miodownik, Nicolas Martin, Laura Alvarez, Juliane Simmchen, Roberto Di Leonardo, Nicola Pellicciotta, Quentin Martinet, Jérémie Palacci, Wai Kit Ng, Dhruv Saxena, Riccardo Sapienza, Sara Nadine, João F Mano, Reza Mahdavi, Caroline Beck Adiels, Joe Forth, Christian Santangelo, Stefano Palagi, Ji Min Seok, Victoria A Webster-Wood, Shuhong Wang, Lining Yao, Amirreza Aghakhani, Thomas Barois, Hamid Kellay, Corentin Coulais, Martin van Hecke, Christopher J Pierce, Tianyu Wang, Baxi Chong, Daniel I Goldman, Andreagiovanni Reina, Vito Trianni, Giovanni Volpe, Richard Beckett, Sean P Nair, Rachel Armstrong
Opublikowane w: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Numer 37, 2025, ISSN 0953-8984
Wydawca: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ADEBD3

3D-MuPPET: 3D Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking

Autorzy: Urs Waldmann, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Hemal Naik, Máté Nagy, Iain D. Couzin, Oliver Deussen, Bastian Goldluecke, Fumihiro Kano
Opublikowane w: International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024, ISSN 0920-5691
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11263-024-02074-y

Nature

Autorzy: Güniz Göze Eren; Leonard Böger; Marianne Roca; Fumie Hiramatsu; Jun Liu; Luis Alvarez; Desiree L. Goetting; Lewis A. Cockram; Nurit Zorn; Ziduan Han; Misako Okumura; Monika Scholz; James W. Lightfoot
Opublikowane w: Nature, Numer 651, 2026, ISSN 0028-0836
Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-025-10009-X

Tailbeat perturbations improve swimming efficiency by reducing the phase lag between body motion and the resulting fluid response

Autorzy: Li-Ming Chao, Laibing Jia, Siyuan Wang, Alexander Liberzon, Sridhar Ravi, Iain D Couzin, Liang Li
Opublikowane w: PNAS Nexus, Numer 3, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Wydawca: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae073

Risk and Retribution: How Punishment Uncertainty Weakens Norms of Cooperation

Autorzy: Vincent Oberhauser, Iain Couzin, Mohammad Salahshour
Opublikowane w: OSF, 2025, ISSN 0000-0000
Wydawca: OSF
DOI: 10.31235/OSF.IO/3EB5T_V1

A modular multi-color fluorescence microscope for simultaneous tracking of cellular activity and behavior

Autorzy: Euphrasie Ramahefarivo; Leonard Böger; Takkasila Saichol; Behzad Shomali; Luis Alvarez; Monika Scholz
Opublikowane w: bioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Wydawca: openRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.01.646316

Acoustic cognitive map–based navigation in echolocating bats

Autorzy: Aya Goldshtein, Xing Chen, Eran Amichai, Arjan Boonman, Lee Harten, Omer Yinon, Yotam Orchan, Ran Nathan, Sivan Toledo, Iain D. Couzin, Yossi Yovel
Opublikowane w: Science, Numer 386, 2024, ISSN 0036-8075
Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADN6269

Evolution of altruistic rationality provides a solution to social dilemmas via rational reciprocity

Autorzy: Mohammad Salahshour, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Physical Review Research, Numer 7, 2025, ISSN 2643-1564
Wydawca: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/SZ5B-J75Y

The behavioral mechanisms governing collective motion in swarming locusts

Autorzy: Sercan Sayin, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Inga Petelski, Yannick Günzel, Mohammad Salahshour, Chi-Yu Lee, Jacob M. Graving, Liang Li, Oliver Deussen, Gregory A. Sword, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Science, Numer 387, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADQ7832

On collective behavior in C. elegans

Autorzy: Nemanja Antonic, Aymeric Vellinger, Elio Tuci
Opublikowane w: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Numer 19, 2025, ISSN 1662-5218
Wydawca: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FNBOT.2025.1689332

Non-invasive eye tracking and retinal view reconstruction in free swimming schooling fish

Autorzy: Ruiheng Wu; Oliver Deussen; Iain D. Couzin; Liang Li
Opublikowane w: Communications Biology, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Wydawca: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S42003-024-07322-Y

Swarming transitions of self-propelled particles with anisotropic social interactions

Autorzy: Zhanwei Gao, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Physical Review Research, Numer 7, 2025, ISSN 2643-1564
Wydawca: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.7.023144

PLoS Biology

Autorzy: Staum, Michal; Abraham, Ayelet-Chen; Arbid, Reema; Birari, Varun Sanjay; Dominitz, Matanel; Rabinowitch, Ithai
Opublikowane w: PLOS Biology, 2024, ISSN 1544-9173
Wydawca: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PBIO.3002729

Reverse engineering the control law for schooling in zebrafish using virtual reality

Autorzy: Liang Li, Máté Nagy, Guy Amichay, Ruiheng Wu, Wei Wang, Oliver Deussen, Daniela Rus, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Science Robotics, Numer 10, 2025, ISSN 2470-9476
Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIROBOTICS.ADQ6784

Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion

Autorzy: Guy Amichay, Liang Li, Máté Nagy, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Nature Communications, Numer 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48458-z

Asymmetry in synaptic connectivity balances redundancy and reachability in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome

Autorzy: Varun Birari and Ithai Rabinowitch
Opublikowane w: iScience, 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Wydawca: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110713

Whither Sentience?

Autorzy: Matti Häyry, Tuija Takala
Opublikowane w: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2026, ISSN 0963-1801
Wydawca: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180126100073

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

Autorzy: Conor Heins, Beren Millidge, Lancelot Da Costa, Richard P. Mann, Karl J. Friston, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Numer 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Wydawca: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320239121

RoboTwin: A Platform to Study Hydrodynamic Interactions in Schooling Fish

Autorzy: Liang Li, Li-Ming Chao, Siyuan Wang, Oliver Deussen, Iain D. Couzin
Opublikowane w: IEEE Robotics &amp; Automation Magazine, Numer 31, 2024, ISSN 1070-9932
Wydawca: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/mra.2023.3348303

Sensory collectives in natural systems

Autorzy: Hannah J Williams, Vivek H Sridhar, Edward Hurme, Gabriella EC Gall, Natalia Borrego, Genevieve E Finerty, Iain D Couzin, C Giovanni Galizia, Nathaniel J Dominy, Hannah M Rowland, Mark E Hauber, James P Higham, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Amanda D Melin
Opublikowane w: eLife, Numer 12, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Wydawca: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
DOI: 10.7554/elife.88028

Behavioral adjustment of C. elegans to mechanosensory loss requires intact mechanosensory neurons

Autorzy: Michal Staum, Ayelet-Chen Abraham, Reema Arbid, Varun Birari, Matanel Dominitz, Ithai Rabinowitch
Opublikowane w: PLoS Biology, 2024, ISSN 1545-7885
Wydawca: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002729

<i>In vivo</i> RNA targeting in the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> using exogenous catalytic DNA

Autorzy: Eriс Khananshvilli, Ayelet-Chen Abraham, Netanel Cohen, Michal Staum, Dorene Friedman, Ithai Rabinowitch
Opublikowane w: BioTechniques, Numer 78, 2026, ISSN 0736-6205
Wydawca: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/07366205.2026.2678313

Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits

Autorzy: Güniz Göze Eren, Leonard Böger, Marianne Roca, Fumie Hiramatsu, Jun Liu, Luis Alvarez, Desiree L. Goetting, Lewis A. Cockram, Nurit Zorn, Ziduan Han, Misako Okumura, Monika Scholz, James W. Lightfoot
Opublikowane w: Nature, Numer 651, 2026, ISSN 0028-0836
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-025-10009-X

Resolving transitions between distinct phases of memory consolidation at high resolution in Caenorhabditis elegans

Autorzy: Netanel Cohen; Ithai Rabinowitch
Opublikowane w: iScience, 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Wydawca: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ISCI.2024.111147

Lévy-modulated Correlated Random Walks in Swarm Robotics

Autorzy: Luigi Feola, Vito Trianni
Opublikowane w: Swarm Intelligence, Numer 20, 2026, ISSN 1935-3812
Wydawca: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11721-026-00258-5

Conference proceedings (6)

Behavioural Classification in <i>C. elegans</i> : a Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Locomotion

Autorzy: Nemanja Antonic, Monika Scholz, Aymeric Vellinger, Euphrasie Ramahefarivo, Elio Tuci
Opublikowane w: ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025, Numer 37, 2025, ISSN 2693-1508
Wydawca: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/ISAL.A.880

Strong leaders don’t cheat: an evolutionary appraisal of population heterogeneity and leadership

Autorzy: Longhi, Carlo; Martinez-Vaquero, Luis A.; Vázquez, Fernando Wario; Trianni, Vito
Opublikowane w: ALife proceedings
Wydawca: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/ISAL_A_00819

Hybrid Modelling of Stimuli-Based and Density-Induced Aggregation in C. elegans

Autorzy: Vellinger, Aymeric; Antonic, Nemanja; Tuci, Elio
Opublikowane w: ALife proceedings
Wydawca: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/ISAL_A_00763

Minimalist exploration strategies for robot swarms at the edge of chaos

Autorzy: Vinicius Sartorio, Luigi Feola, Vito Trianni, Jonata Tyska Carvalho
Opublikowane w: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2025
Wydawca: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3712256.3726311

From Pheromones to Policies: Reinforcement Learning for Engineered Biological Swarms

Autorzy: Aymeric Vellinger, Nemanja Antonic, Elio Tuci
Opublikowane w: Zenodo
Wydawca: Zenodo
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2509.20095

Chemotactic Swarming of C. elegans as a Collective Decision-Making Process

Autorzy: Nemanja Antonic, Aymeric Vellinger, Elio Tuci
Opublikowane w: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, 2025
Wydawca: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93631-9_5