Shake those bees back and forth: Smart swarm intelligence

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Published Jan 29, 2020

What happens when you shake a swarm? This bundle of buzzing bees changes shape to form a more stable structure. This clever response is the result of individual bees following simple rules - a kind of emergent intelligence.

To find out how ants use similar simple rules to create complex structures, watch this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdsHegIujMg

To read the original research paper in Nature Physics click here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0262-1

17th September 2018

Category: Academic

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