Swarm intelligence

A slew of countries have announced military drone swarm projects in the last few weeks. Here's a primer on what swarms are, how they work and the advantages they bring.

Swarm Intelligence

Swarm Theory, by Peter Miller, talks about how some animals, as individuals, aren’t smart, but as a group or a swarm, they can do amazing things. The above is a flock of starlings that can ch…

When animals swarm they exhibit a complex collective intelligence that could help us build robots, heal wounds and understand the brain IAIN COUZIN does not have fond memories of field research. Early in his career, he travelled to Mauritania in north-west Africa to follow a swarm of locusts. Devastation caused by the insects meant no …

Douglas Starr writes about “swarm intelligence,” a concept central to good leadership in a time of crisis, according to Harvard researchers who studied the response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

By Ben Zweibelson* Since the 1990s, Western military organizations have demonstrated periodic interest in whether the emergent behavior of decentralized systems, commonly referred to as ‘swarm theory’ or ‘swarm behavior,’ might be relevant in military applications. Defence innovators such as the RAND Corporation sponsored multiple studies on swarm theory in the past decade and a...

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Seems like swarm algorithms and flocking behavior are pretty popular these days. Visualizations of those algorithms are pretty sparse, though. Today I ran across the work of some architecture stu…

At first glance the pictures in Alain Delorme's Murmurations series look like beautiful swarms of starlings heading home at dusk. A second look reveals that the birds are not what they seem.

Swarm What? Benjamin Bratton, 2012 What it is that designers actually mean when we/they talk about swarms, intelligence, and swarm intelligence? Usually we refer to rhythmic emergent processes R…

SWARM Intelligence Architecture

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Label/Cat#: Swarm Intelligence – SWRM001 Year: 04 Apr 2022 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Techno Format: 4 × File, FLAC, EP, 24bit Tracklist 1. Lethality (06:06) 2. Slaughterbot (05:37) 3. The Glory is You (05:41) 4. Edge of Chaos (05:54)

Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.

The Swallows of San Juan Capistrano Not far from San Diego, where my parents shifted from the Texas plains to sunny California during WW2 because my daddy had to go for training at the Naval base t…