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Abstract. Evolutionary robotics can be a powerful tool in studies on the evolutionary origins of self-organising behaviours in biological sys-tems. However, these studies are viable only when the behaviour of the evolved artificial system closely corresponds to the one observed in bi-ology, as described by available models. In this paper, we compare the behaviour evolved in a robotic system with the collegial decision making displayed by cockroaches in selecting a resting shelter. We show that ar-tificial evolution can synthesise a simple self-organising behaviour for a swarm of robots, which presents dynamics that are comparable with the cockroaches behaviour.