Super-organisms, exemplified by insect societies, solve complex problems collectively, sans plan or planner, on scales much larger than the individual. Motivated by observations in the field and in the lab, I will describe how different orders of social insects actively regulate their micro-environment by constructing and deconstructing complex functional architectures.
Fiber optic sensing has transformed the way we monitor our world, turning optical fibers into intelligent networks capable of detecting changes in temperature, strain, acoustic wave and vibrations over vast distances. By leveraging the fundamental properties of light in fibers—such as phase, polarization, frequency spectrum and scattering—these sensors provide real-time insights for critical infrastructure and environmental monitoring.
With the growing demand for energy-efficient AI applications, the rapid development of self-powered sensors together with edge computing and edge AI technology at the sensor nodes has led to the new era of AI sensors. Traditional sensors and sensing systems can no longer meet the demands for real-time multimodal sensing and large-scale data processing, leading to a shift towards a new paradigm of AI Sensors and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) sensing systems with integrated computational intelligence.
