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Giant Abandoned Ant Colony

 

Dr. Luiz Carlos Forti,  professor at UNESP (Sào Paulo State University, Brazil), leads the excavation of a huge subterranean megalopolis built by Leafcutter ants that spanned an area of more than 538 square feet and delved 26 feet into the earth.

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Self-Organized Collective Decisions in a Robot Swarm

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This robots swarm take ispiration from the behaviour of honey bees swarm.
When hunting honey bees choose a new location, the collective choice they make is the result of simple interaction between the swarm members.

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Neuronal interactions vs ants interactions

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Can we consider individual ants as analogous to individual neurons?
Deborah Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, has identified striking similarities in how ant colonies, brains, cells and computer networks regulate themselves. She says:

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Robot swarm and high risk operations

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Swarm Intelligence is contributing to improve our robotics systems, creating new ways to help humans in high risk operations.

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School of Fish: Effective Cooperative Actions

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Termites and ants are not the only to perform incredibles swarm intelligence actions think of the school of fish.

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Biomimicry: what we can learn from mother nature

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Since ancient times men have always  imitated nature for their artifacts, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a keen observer of the anatomy and flight of birds, and made numerous notes and sketches on his observations as well as sketches of “flying machines”.

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MURMURATION

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It comes defined “MURMURATION” a Starling flock. This term describes the rustle caused by thousands of wings that move in unison as if they would be words whispered. Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae More…

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Southwest Airlines route troubles

 

Some years ago  Southwest Airlines got trouble with cargo operations. Indeed many planes were using only 7% of their cargo space and at some airports there wasn’t enough capacity to accommodate scheduled loads of freight, leading to bottlenecks.

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HP and congested telephone network

 

About ten years ago many Telephone companies faced the problems of congested telecom network. To solve the problems researchers from Hewlett-Packard’s laboratories in Bristol, England, developed a computer program based on ant-foraging principles that routes such calls efficiently.

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