Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a ...

Nature likes swarms. Birds, ants, bees, brain cells—even people—form swarms when given the chance for reasons that are still not completely understood. They go from being individuals to one cohesive ...

After using LEVA to create precise shapes of EVPs from bacteria, simulating an infection, the team added immune cells. Watch the cells rapidly detect and swarm toward the cicular patterns of bacterial ...