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SUMMARY:Prof. Matan Yah Ben Zion: From Robot Uprising  to Rise of the Dead - Lessons in Engineering and Biology  from Active Matter
TZID:Europe/Berlin
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LOCATION:Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS) - Maria Göppert Room (0.79) and Zoom Meeting ID 959 2774 3389 Passcode: 651129
CONTACT:Eberhard Bodenschatz\, gd@ds.mpg.de\, 0551 5176-301
CATEGORIES:research
DESCRIPTION:Cooperation is vital for the survival of a swarm. No single bird is faster than a jet plane\, and no single fish is faster than a speed boat — humans beat individual animals in air\, land\, and sea. But\, when animals cooperate and swarm\, they beat us since biblical times. The technological gap in engineering artificial swarms suggests a conceptual gap in our understanding of emergent behaviors in decentralized systems. Inspired by non-equilibrium statistical mechanics I will present a recent result from my group that sheds light on a hallmark of agile cooperation in nature: cooperative transport — the ability of a decentralized group to spontaneously transport a larger payload. Using Newtonian me-chanics alone I will present the minimal ingredients required for simple robots to achieve cooperative transport and derive a geometric criterion for its emergence. Interestingly\, our model finds application in biomechanics\, and captures geotaxis\, a widespread pheno-type in the animal kingdom. I will conclude with future directions and potential extension of our approach using machine learning and artificial intelligence.\n\nTitle: MPI-DS Colloquium: From Robot Uprising  to Rise of the Dead - Lessons in Engineering and Biology  from Active Matter\nSpeaker: Prof. Matan Yah Ben Zion\nOrganizer: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation\nHost: MPI-DS\nContact: Eberhard Bodenschatz\, gd@ds.mpg.de\, 0551 5176-301\n
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