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Of Ants and Robots

Posted by Zonk on from the both-pretty-much-work-the-same dept.

conJunk writes "The BBC has an interesting story about Ants and their leaderless collective behavior. It goes on to describe these cool little robots called U-bots. They have a super-simple instruction set and if you let them loose in a room full of frisbees it looks, to the casual observer, like intelligent and guided work." From the article: "Being small is going to be a problem. So how can you get a whole bunch of dumb small things doing something smart?"

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  1. Neurons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Each neuron in our brain is dumb compared to our entire brain.

    Same thing with these ants and these robots..

  2. Turing Machines... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And here I tought the fact that complex problems can be broken down and solved by simplistic devices was a founding tenant of computer science.

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