Architectural swarms for responsive facades and creative expression
Merihan Alhafnawi, Jad Bendarkawi, Yenet Tafasse, Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Azariah Jones, Vicky Chow, Sigrid Adriaenssens and Radhika Nagpal
Accepted in Science Robotics (in-press for Jan 2026).
Express Yourself: Enabling large-scale public events involving multi-human-swarm interaction for social applications with MOSAIX
Merihan Alhafnawi, Maca Gomez-Gutierrez, Edmund R Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O’Dowd and Sabine Hauert
ICRA 2025
Deliberative Democracy with Robot Swarms
Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O’Dowd and Sabine Hauert
IROS 2022
MOSAIX: a Swarm of Robot Tiles for Social Human-Swarm Interaction
Merihan Alhafnawi, Edmund R. Hunt, Severin Lemaignan, Paul O’Dowd and Sabine Hauert
ICRA 2022
Self-Organised Saliency Detection and Representation in Robot Swarms
Merihan Alhafnawi, Sabine Hauert, and Paul O’Dowd
IEEE RA-L & ICRA 2021
Robotic canvas: Interactive painting onto robot swarms
Merihan Alhafnawi, Sabine Hauert and Paul O’Dowd
ALIFE 2020
MIPS, ARM and SPARC – an Architecture Comparison
Sarah El Kady, Mai Khater and Merihan Alhafnawi
WCE 2014
Merihan Alhafnawi 