CollMot Entertainment is proud to announce that Journal of The Royal Society Interface featured their experts’ research article on the cover of their June 2020 issue: Adaptive leadership overcomes persistence–responsivity trade-off in flocking.

The long-exposure photo depicts CollMot's drone swarm in true self-organization using adaptive leadership hierarchy amongst themselves. This is true swarming behavior — the drones are not following predefined routes. The flock avoids square-shaped virtual walls on the fly with very smooth trajectories and constant density thanks to a new principle of collective motion. Our solution relies on active communication or advanced cognition for the perception of "will" of other drones. The incorporation of "will"-based hierarchy into collective motion is a plausible hypothesis in higher order species in nature, while it is a realizable feature for artificial robots, as demonstrated by our swarm of drones.

One of the authors is co-founder of CollMot Entertainment, while the company itself provided the infrastructure and technology to make the autonomous flight of 52 drones in a virtual arena possible.