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No need to fear automation

Robots that recognize emotions such as stress and boredom in their human counterparts and adjust their behaviour accordingly? Biohybrid networks of smart plants and computers to monitor air quality? Heiko Hamann's research team at the University of Konstanz develops and studies high-tech systems like these as part of two EU projects.

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Neural puppeteer

Artificial intelligence (AI) reconstructs motion sequences of humans and animals

Swarm research for Terra X

Three researchers from the University of Konstanz involved as experts in the documentary series Schlaue Schwärme

Understanding the swarm

Real animals in virtual swarms, drones in the savannah and a high-teck lab on Lake Constance: Researchers at the "Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" (CASCB) describe how they study animal swarms.

Gisela Kopp receives guest professorship

Gisela Kopp, Affiliate member of the CASCB and Research Fellow (Biology) at the Zukunftskolleg, has received a guest professorship at Dartmouth College in Hanover, Department of Anthropology, New Hampshire, USA.

Hector Research Career Development Award for Anna Stöckl

For the third time, the Hector Fellow Academy has presented the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award. On January 28, 2023, the jury of experts selected three young scientists whose research careers the Hector Fellow Academy now supports: Among them is neuroscientist Anna Stöckl from the CASCB and the University of Konstanz.

Why selfishness can lead to fairness

Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds