Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Feb 20, 2023
We studied how the interactions among animals in a collective allow for the transfer of information. We performed laboratory experiments to study how zebrafish in a collective follow a subset of trained animals that move towards a light when it turns...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jan 23, 2023
That humans might undergo future evolutionary transitions in individuality (ETIs) seems fanciful. However, drawing upon recent thinking concerning the origins of properties that underpin ETIs, I argue that certain ETIs are imminently realizable. Cent...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2022
New approaches to 3D vision are enabling new advances in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles, a better understanding of how animals navigate the 3D world, and new insights into human perception in virtual and augmented reality. Whilst tra...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2022
Researchers across cognitive, neuro- and computer sciences increasingly reference 'human-like' artificial intelligence and 'neuroAI'. However, the scope and use of the terms are often inconsistent. Contributed research ranges widely from mimicking , ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2022
Navigation is one of the most heavily studied problems in robotics and is conventionally approached as a geometric mapping and planning problem. However, real-world navigation presents a complex set of physical challenges that defies simple geometric...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Oct 3, 2022
Advances in electron microscopy (EM) such as electron tomography and focused ion-beam scanning electron microscopy provide unprecedented, three-dimensional views of cardiac ultrastructures within sample volumes ranging from hundreds of nanometres to ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2021
This paper presents a series of experiments in collective social robotics, spanning more than 10 years, with the long-term aim of building embodied models of (aspects of) cultural evolution. Initial experiments demonstrated the emergence of behaviour...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2021
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 collective of robots where sensing, acting and coordination are performe...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Dec 13, 2021
We survey and reflect on how learning (in the form of individual learning and/or culture) can augment evolutionary approaches to the joint optimization of the body and control of a robot. We focus on a class of applications where the goal is to evolv...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Nov 15, 2021
Rapid technological advances in artificial intelligence are creating opportunities for real-time algorithmic modulations of a person's facial and vocal expressions, or 'deep-fakes'. These developments raise unprecedented societal and ethical question...