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Gerald Radspieler is a pioneer in bio-inspired swarm robotics, specializing in collective decision-making and heterogeneous multi-agent systems. His foundational work, “Get in touch: cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions” (151 citations), introduced a groundbreaking paradigm where simple physical interactions—rather than digital communication—enable swarms to reach consensus. This work demonstrated that even minimal, collision-based feedback can drive robust group behavior, a principle he later extended in “Adaptive collective decision-making in limited robot swarms without communication” (47 citations), where microrobots inspired by honeybee thermotaxis aggregate without any digital sensing or direct messaging. Radspieler’s research on heterogeneity, highlighted in “Potential of Heterogeneity in Collective Behaviors: A Case Study on Heterogeneous Swarms” (43 citations), reveals how mixing robot types can enhance swarm performance. A standout achievement is his role in the ASSISI project, where he helped create a mixed society of honeybees and robotic agents—a landmark in human-robot-animal interaction. His cellular model of swarm intelligence in bees and robots further bridges biological and artificial systems, offering a simple yet powerful framework for understanding emergent intelligence. Radspieler’s work consistently pushes the boundaries of what simple, resource-constrained robots can achieve, inspiring new approaches to scalable, decentralized robotics.