Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

Nanoparticles are designed to deliver therapeutics and diagnostics selectively to tumors.
Their size, shape, charge, material, coating, and cargo determine their individual …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

How do flocks, herds and swarms move through disordered environments? The answer to
this question is crucial not only to animal groups in the wild, but also to effectively all …

The EU-funded CoCoRo project studies heterogeneous swarms of AUVs used for the
purposes of under water monitoring and search. The CoCoRo underwater swarm system …

Coexistence of order and fluidity in soft matter often mimics that in biology, allowing for
complex dynamics and applications-like displays. In active soft matter, emergent order can …

The term programmable matter refers to matter which has the ability to change its physical
properties (shape, density, moduli, conductivity, optical properties, etc.) in a programmable …

Self-organized collective behavior has been analyzed in diverse types of gregarious
animals. Such collective intelligence emerges from the synergy between individuals, which …

In this paper we consider programmable matter consisting of simple computational
elements, called particles, that can establish and release bonds and can actively move in a …

The goal of this themed issue and the associated Royal Society and British Academy joint
Discussion Meeting is to advance, and bridge between, two topics and their respective …