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Thomas Bose is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and collective decision-making, with a focus on how groups of simple agents can achieve sophisticated, adaptive behaviors. His work bridges biology and engineering, drawing inspiration from social insects to design minimalist robot swarms capable of efficient foraging and value-sensitive choices. Bose’s most cited paper, “Collective decision-making” (2017, 85 citations), lays foundational theory for decentralized consensus in robot groups. In “Sophisticated collective foraging with minimalist agents” (2019, 65 citations), he demonstrated how swarms can robustly handle distance-quality trade-offs and adapt strategies based on swarm size—a key insight for real-world applications. His research on spatiality’s effects on value-sensitive decisions (2018, 33 citations) and time-varying cross-inhibition mechanisms (2019, 26 citations) further advanced the field by improving decision accuracy in noisy, dynamic environments. Bose’s contributions are notable for their elegance: achieving complex group intelligence with minimal individual capabilities, making his work highly cited and influential for both biologists studying collective behavior and engineers designing resilient autonomous systems.