Fernando M. Montes-González

Innate robot reflexes, designed for solitary tasks, actively impede the evolution of effective communication strategies in social foraging.

Co-evolved communication protocols exhibit surprising robustness when transferred from 2D to 3D physics, with performance scaling linearly with episode length and social cues acting predominantly as jam-assistance.

Co-evolved robot communication protocols fail to transfer robustly to the physical world, even with sensory calibration, revealing that ecological and navigational context is as crucial as the signaling process itself.