Researchers show that a swarm of animals as a whole completes a perfect flight reaction, even if individual individuals do not perceive the threat or respond incorrectly, in a study employing microrobots that behave as a swarm of animals
A herd of antelope feeds peacefully on a meadow. Suddenly, a lion shows up, and the herd flees. But how do they manage to do so collectively? Konstanz physicist Chun-Jen Chen and Professor Clemens Bechinger, a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour," asked themselves how animals must behave in order to initiate an efficient flight response.