- The Motes of Berkeley and Intel are the most popular sensor network platform.
- Programmable bricks and Pushpin computing projects at MIT.
- Smart-Its project at ETH Zurich.
- Adaptive control of Distributed Agents through Pheromone Techniques and Interactive Visualization at ALTARUM labs.
- The "Pheromone Robotics" project at HRL Laboratories.
- ECLab at George Mason works on pheromone-based navigation for artificial agents.
- The Rus Robotics Lab at MIT works on teams of mobile robots and sensor networks.
- University of Southern California Robotics Research Labs is working on similar problems.