CNLS '89 Proceedings of the ninth annual international conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies on Self-organizing, Collective, and Cooperative Phenomena in Natural and Artificial Computing Networks on Emergent computation
The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
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Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
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An autonomous agent navigating with a polarized light compass
Adaptive Behavior
Cognitive modeling: psychology and connectionism
The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics
Artificial Life
Life, Mind, and Robots: The Ins and Outs of Embodied Cognition
Hybrid Neural Systems, revised papers from a workshop
Evolvable Hardware in Evolutionary Robotics
Autonomous Robots
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
Connection Science
Evolution of signalling in a group of robots controlled by dynamic neural networks
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
From embodied to socially embedded agents - Implications for interaction-aware robots
Cognitive Systems Research
Mechanistic versus phenomenal embodiment: Can robot embodiment lead to strong AI?
Cognitive Systems Research
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Review: Of robot ants and elephants: A computational comparison
Theoretical Computer Science
Formica ex machina: ant swarm foraging from physical to virtual and back again
ANTS'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Swarm Intelligence
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The aim of this paper is to consider the relationships between robots and insects. To this end, an overview is provided of the two main areas in which insects have been implicated in robotics research. First, robots have been used to provide working models of mechanisms underlying insect behaviour. Second, there are developments in robotics that have been inspired by our understanding of insect behaviour; in particular the approach of swarm robotics. In the final section of the paper, the possibility of achieving "strong swarm intelligence" is discussed. Two possible interpretations of strong swarm intelligence are raised: (1) the emergence of a group mind from a natural, or robot swarm, and (2) that behaviours could emerge from a swarm of artificial robots in the same way as they emerge from a biological swarm. Both interpretations are dismissed as being unachievable in principle. It is concluded that bio-robotic modelling and biological inspiration have made important contributions to both insect and robot research, but insects and robots remain separated by the divide between the living and the purely mechanical.