Link: The Alien Next Door: Traveling Sales Ants & Swarming Robots.
This post summarizes the Scientific American article Swarm Smarts (Eric Bonabeau and Guy Théraulaz) on the power of self-organization and distributed intelligence found in social insects such as ants and bees. In additional to describing some practical examples, Nina Munteanu provides additional references not listed in the article.
A commercial application of swarm intelligence by Regen Energy was described in the September 2007 issue of the BioInspired! Newsletter.
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