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Robots mediating interactions between animals for interspecies collective behaviors

Self-organized collective behavior has been analyzed in diverse types of gregarious animals. Such collective in-telligence emerges from the synergy between individuals, which behave at their own time and spatial scales andwithout global rules. Recently, robots have been developed to collaborate with animal groups in the pursuit ofbetter understanding their decision-making processes. These biohybrid systems make cooperative relationshipsbetween artificial systems and animals possible, which can yield new capabilities in the resulting mixed group.However, robots are currently tailor-made to successfully engage with one animal species at a time. This limits thepossibilities of introducing distinct species-dependent perceptual capabilities and types of behaviors in the samesystem. Here, we show that robots socially integrated into animal groups of honeybees and zebrafish, each onelocated in a different city, allowing these two species to interact. This interspecific information transfer is demon-strated by collective decisions that emerge between the two autonomous robotic systems and the two animalgroups. The robots enable this biohybrid system to function at any distance and operates in water and air withmultiple sensorimotor properties across species barriers and ecosystems. These results demonstrate the feasibil-ity of generating and controlling behavioral patterns in biohybrid groups of multiple species. Such interspeciesconnections between diverse robotic systems and animal species may open the door for new forms of artificialcollective intelligence, where the unrivaled perceptual capabilities of the animals and their brains can be used toenhance autonomous decision-making, which could find applications in selective“rewiring”of ecosystems.

Swarm robotics ; collective behaviors

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