This is an invitation to all those interested or working in the field of swarm robotics to submit a paper to Nature.

Guest Editors: Dr Antonio Tsourdos of Cranfield University and Dr Henry Leung of Calgary University, Canada.

Submission deadline: 29 May 2025

Inspired by the collective behaviour of social insects, swarm robotics involves the coordination of large numbers of relatively simple robots, often relying on local interactions and decentralised control, to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible for a single robot to accomplish. Potential applications of swarm robotics are diverse, including environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and medical applications.

This Collection welcomes original research from the fields of robotic and software engineering, as well as complex systems and network theory.

9 October 2024