60,000 locust feet march from left to right and right to left in the arena. They belong to 10,000 locusts in the world's largest laboratory experiment on swarm behaviour. The experiment allows to study the for-mation of marching bands of locusts for the first time in the lab. The Imaging Hangar, the largest laboratory at the University of Konstanz, is filled with the tapping sound of the locusts. The involved researchers sit in an excited atmosphere in the control room next door.
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.
Motivated by having been named a Conservation Tech Award grantee in 2022, MoveApps is launching the EMAC23 coding challenge to Equip MoveApps for Conservation.
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, 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.