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A delegation from the Connected Minds program at York University, Canada, visited the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz from August 19-21. The aim of the visit was to foster joint research on “Collaborative Technology and Emergent Behaviour” between Connected Minds and CASCB.

Twenty young researchers from around the world gathered in Konstanz to participate in the second Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour. The school aimed to prepare the next generation of collective behaviour scientists.

What exactly is swarm intelligence? How do politicians make decisions, and how do animal swarms? Can the use of AI in the workplace succeed? On July 18, 2024, scientists from the two Konstanz Clusters of Excellence will answer your questions.

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz discovered. They published their results in the journal Nature Communication.

We kindly invite you to the final presentation of the latest sci-art project between the Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Design and Media, Stuttgart, and the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour on 3 July, starting with an opening event at 1:30 pm in ZT 702. Afterwards, you can experience the virtual worlds in ZT 701 and ZT 9 until 4 pm.

Kim Doell, who is investigating the impacts of climate change, joined the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour in June 2024 as junior group leader.

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step towards markerless tracking of animals in the wild using computer vision and machine learning.

Virtual Reality experiments have illuminated the rhythmic glue that could keep animals moving in synchrony

Collective behaviour robotic researchers Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling and Andreagiovanni Reina have won the best paper award at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.