ASSISI: Mixing Animals with Robots in a Hybrid Society

Schmickl, Thomas; Bogdan, Stjepan; Correia, Luís; Kernbach, Serge; Mondada, Francesco; Bodi, Michael; Gribovskiy, Alexey; Hahshold, Sibylle; Miklić, Damjan; Szopek, Martina; Thenius, Ronald; Halloy, José

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“…Instead, we can expect Society 5.0 to be a radically posthumanized society that includes all the forms of technological and non-technological posthumanization reflected in Figure 3. A glimpse of Society 5.0 s future reality can already be seen, for example, in the work of Schmickl et al (2013), who have sought to create hybrid animal-robotic societies (or "collective adaptive systems") in which real biological honeybees live and labor alongside honeybee-like robotic nodes and schools of fish include both robotic and natural biological members. If one imagines a future society whose human members carefully tend mixed hives of robotic and biological bees in order to produce honey for their consumption or swim leisurely amidst hybrid schools of fish whose robotic members help the biological members to interact with the human swimmers, then one is picturing a society that is both non-technologically and technologically posthumanized in rich and meaningful ways.…”

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Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Gladden

2019

Social Sciences

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The Government of Japan’s “Society 5.0” initiative aims to create a cyber-physical society in which (among other things) citizens’ daily lives will be enhanced through increasingly close collaboration with artificially intelligent systems. However, an apparent paradox lies at the heart of efforts to create a more “human-centered” society in which human beings will live alongside a proliferating array of increasingly autonomous social robots and embodied AI. This study seeks to investigate the presumed human-centeredness of Society 5.0 by comparing its makeup with that of earlier societies. By distinguishing “technological” and “non-technological” processes of posthumanization and applying a phenomenological anthropological model, this study demonstrates: (1) how the diverse types of human and non-human members expected to participate in Society 5.0 differ qualitatively from one another; (2) how the dynamics that will shape the membership of Society 5.0 can be conceptualized; and (3) how the anticipated membership of Society 5.0 differs from that of Societies 1.0 through 4.0. This study describes six categories of prospective human and non-human members of Society 5.0 and shows that all six have analogues in earlier societies, which suggests that social scientific analysis of past societies may shed unexpected light on the nature of Society 5.0.

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Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Gladden

2019

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“…In parallel to the understanding of information processing by the animals, this approach is also a new step towards bioinspired algorithms that can be implemented in robotic agents. Indeed, it is a major scientific challenge to build artificial systems composed of robots that can perceive, communicate to, interact with other agents (biological or robotic) and adapt to their environment [ 53 ]. To do so, we need to develop artificial agents that communicate through appropriate channels corresponding to specific animal traits but also that correctly perceive and interpret the signals emitted by the animals [ 54 – 56 ].…”

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A stochastic vision-based model inspired by zebrafish collective behaviour in heterogeneous environments

Collignon¹,

Séguret²,

Halloy³

2016

R. Soc. open sci.

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Collective motion is one of the most ubiquitous behaviours displayed by social organisms and has led to the development of numerous models. Recent advances in the understanding of sensory system and information processing by animals impels one to revise classical assumptions made in decisional algorithms. In this context, we present a model describing the three-dimensional visual sensory system of fish that adjust their trajectory according to their perception field. Furthermore, we introduce a stochastic process based on a probability distribution function to move in targeted directions rather than on a summation of influential vectors as is classically assumed by most models. In parallel, we present experimental results of zebrafish (alone or in group of 10) swimming in both homogeneous and heterogeneous environments. We use these experimental data to set the parameter values of our model and show that this perception-based approach can simulate the collective motion of species showing cohesive behaviour in heterogeneous environments. Finally, we discuss the advances of this multilayer model and its possible outcomes in biological, physical and robotic sciences.

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“…We have introduced an ambitious project and presented our early work in constructing an autonomous system for environmental monitoring. The paradigm of using life forms for biomoniotoring, "life-form in the loop", has been shown to be promising in other areas (Schmickl et al, 2013;Wahby et al, 2018;Komasilova et al, 2020). This paradigm opens doors to concepts such as ecosystem hacking where existing symbioses between organisms and their habitats can be found and manipulated to avoid collapse of ecosystems.…”

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Biohybrid Entities for Environmental Monitoring

Thenius¹,

Rajewicz²,

Varughese³

et al. 2021

The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life

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In the wake of climate change and water quality crisis, it is crucial to find novel ways to extensively monitor the environment and to detect ecological changes early. Biomonitoring has been found to be an effective way of observing the aggregate effect of environmental fluctuations. In this paper, we outline the development of biohybrids which will autonomously observe simple organisms (microorganisms, algae, mussels etc.) and draw conclusions about the state of the water body. These biohybrids will be used for continuous environmental monitoring and to detect sudden (anthropologically or ecologically catastrophic) events at an early stage. Our biohybrids are being developed within the framework of project Robocoenosis, where the operational area planned are Austrian lakes. Additionally, we discuss the possible use of various species found in these waters and strategies for biomonitoring. We present early prototypes of devices that are being developed for monitoring of organisms.

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ASSISI: Mixing Animals with Robots in a Hybrid Society

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Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

A stochastic vision-based model inspired by zebrafish collective behaviour in heterogeneous environments

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