To learn more about the multi-disciplinary work of our lab, follow the links for the highlighted articles listed here. 

Robot Swarms

• Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-Inspired Robot Construction Team. Science 2014. (Cover Article & Science Top 10 BreakThroughs)
• Programmable Self-Assembly in a Thousand-Robot Swarm. Science 2014. (Science Top 10 BreakThroughs)
• Architectural Swarms for Responsive Façades and Creative Expression. Science Robotics 2026.
• Implicit Coordination for 3D Underwater Collective Behaviors in a Fish-Inspired Robot Swarm. Science Robotics 2021. (Cover Article)
• Eciton robotica: Design and Algorithms for an Adaptive Self-Assembling Soft Robot Collective. ICRA 2020.
• Flight of the Robobees. Scientific American 2013.

Biological Swarms

• Beyond Planar: Fish Schools Adopt Ladder Formations in 3D. Scientific Reports 2025.
• Hysteresis Stabilizes Dynamic Control of Self-assembled Army Ant Constructions. Nature Communications 2022.
• Collective Strategy for Obstacle Navigation during Cooperative Transport by Ants. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2016.
• The Emergence of Geometric Order in Proliferating Metazoan Epithelia. Nature 2006.

Modular Robotics & Multi-Agent Systems

• A Self-Adaptive Framework for Modular Robots in Dynamic Environment: Theory and Applications, IJRR 2010. (IFAAMAS Dissertation Award)
• Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Soft Wearable Robotic Device for Ankle-Foot Rehabilitation. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 2014.
• Firefly-Inspired Sensor Network Synchronicity with Realistic Radio Effects. SENSYS 2005.
• Programmable Self-Assembly Using Biologically-Inspired Multiagent Control and Origami Mathematics. AAMAS 2002.
• Amorphous Computing. Communications of the ACM 2000.