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.

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.