Arboria Community

The swarm intelligence research community is small but growing every day. Our work wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant minds around the world pushing the field forward.

Peer Labs and Groups

• MIT CSAIL Distributed Robotics Lab  — Modular, distributed, and swarm robotics led by Prof. Daniela Rus.
• Harvard Self-Organizing Systems Research Group  — Kilobots and programmable self-assembly; bio-inspired collectives.
• EPFL DISAL  — Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms (Prof. Alcherio Martinoli).
• EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems  — Evolutionary and bio-inspired robotics (Prof. Dario Floreano).
• UPenn GRASP Lab  — Multi-robot coordination and aerial swarms (Prof. Vijay Kumar and collaborators).
• ETH Zürich Robotic Systems Lab  — Field robotics with multi-agent autonomy and coordination.
• University of Sheffield Natural Robotics Lab  — Swarm robotics and collective intelligence (Prof. Roderich Groß).
• Bristol Robotics Laboratory  — UK’s leading robotics center with active swarm/collective research.
• Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour  — Interdisciplinary collective systems (Uni Konstanz & MPI-AB).

Institutes, Programs, and Testbeds

• Georgia Tech Robotarium  — Remote-access multi-robot swarm testbed for academia and industry.
• Wyss Institute at Harvard  — Bio-inspired engineering with strong collective robotics lineage.
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Robotics  — Multi-agent autonomy for space exploration and planetary operations.
• DARPA OFFSET  — Program advancing swarm tactics and tools at scale.

Conferences

• AAMAS — International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The primary venue for multi-agent systems work.
• ANTS — International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. Narrower, dedicated focus.
• ICRA and IROS — IEEE’s main robotics conferences; regular swarm / multi-robot tracks.
• CoRL — Conference on Robot Learning. Strong fit for learned MARL work on physical swarms.
• NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR — general ML venues with growing MARL and world-model tracks.
• ALIFE / ECAL — Artificial Life / European Conference on Artificial Life. Good fit for emergent-behavior and active-matter-flavored work.
• ICAPS — Planning and scheduling; relevant for task allocation and market-based coordination.

Journals

• Swarm Intelligence  — Springer; the dedicated journal for the field.
• Autonomous Robots  — Springer; multi-agent and swarm regularly featured.
• JAAMAS  — Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
• IJRR  — International Journal of Robotics Research.
• JMLR  — Journal of Machine Learning Research; MARL theory and methods.

If you run a lab, testbed, or program that aligns with Arboria’s mission and would like to be listed here, please reach out at community@arborialabs.com.