In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our activities. But ants don’t work that way.
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Inspired by the behaviour of flocks of birds, swarm intelligence is being used in drones to tackle the growing threat of wildfires.
Midges may move in swarms but, unlike a lot of other animals that travel in large numbers, they try to keep their distance from each other.
Research into swarming in nature is transforming healthcare, gambling and the military.
The collective behavior of robot swarms is a route to making small, simple, inexpensive robots – and offers insights into how people make group decisions and adapt to changes.
A swarm of roughly 40 million desert locusts can eat the same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 people.
A swarm of honeybees can provide valuable lessons about how a group of many individuals can work together to accomplish a task, even with no one in charge. Roboticists are taking notes.
Footballers came under attack from a swarm of flies on the Volgograd pitch. But there’s more to midges and gnats than meets the eye.
Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures, with no one in charge.
There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots…
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Lecturer in Robotics, University of Bristol
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