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I think that studying honey bee colony behavior in order to optimise robot group behavior is a clever research strategy. After all, the bees manage to coordinate their behavior with very little brain power and limited ability to communicate.
In a similar vein, in the past few years, soccor-playing robot teams (that's 'football' for most of the world) have been displaying remarkably sophisticated behavior. ]]>Nov 11th 2009 11:36AM