Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) artificial muscle is a typical interdisciplinary research
category, which has developed by leaps and bounds in the past 20 years, showing great …

Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile
objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic, and bacterial, active matter. Whether …

Chiral active matter comprises particles which can self-propel and self-rotate. Examples
range from sperm cells and bacteria near walls to autophoretic L-shaped colloids. In this …

The name active matter refers to any collection of entities that individually use free energy to
generate their own motion and forces. Through interactions, active particles spontaneously …

Emergent behavior in collectives of “robotic” units with limited capabilities that is robust and
programmable is a promising route to perform tasks on the micro and nanoscale that are …

A common feature of biological self-organization is how active agents communicate with
each other or their environment via chemical signaling. Such communications, mediated by …

Whereas naturally occurring swarms thrive when crowded, physical interactions in robotic
swarms are either avoided or carefully controlled, thus limiting their operational density …

In this paper, we present an implementation of social learning for swarm robotics. We
consider social learning as a distributed online reinforcement learning method applied to a …

Experimental robobiological physics can bring insights into biological evolution. We present
a development of hybrid analog/digital autonomous robots with mutable diploid …

The study of active matter has revealed novel non-equilibrium collective behaviors,
illustrating their potential as a new materials platform. However, most work treat active matter …