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Swarm of Kilobots

Research Associate position in Energy-Aware Swarm Programming

We are recruiting a Research Associate for Horizon Europe project OpenSwarm.
Photo of Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award for Best Paper from conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann
Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award from ANTS 2022 conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann

Lab member awarded best research paper in swarm intelligence

MEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering graduate Gopesh Yadav Dosieah won an award for best research paper at the 2022 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence.
Swarm of Kilobots

OpenSwarm: New Horizon Europe project starting

OpenSwarm will investigate novel methods for energy-aware, collaborative swarms and validate these in real-world use cases in various application domains including cities & communities, environmental, industrial & health, and mobility.
Photo of a group of students from Sheffield who took part in SwarmHack

Natural Robotics Lab Hosts SwarmHack 2022

Members of the Natural Robotics Lab helped organise and run the first ever SwarmHack event, three days of intensive learning and team-working using swarm robotics.
Dr Roderich Gross with Ed Bray winner of Best Student Paper

Lab member wins award at international robotics conference

Ed has won the award for Best Student Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems.
Outdoor robot

New lab equipment

We have four new Jackal outdoor rovers.
Roderich Gross

Roderich serves as area chair for RSS 2021

Dr Roderich Gross is the area chair for Robotics: Science and Systems in July 2021.