Interesting-Links

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics and collaborators built an insect-inspired robot that can keep tracking an odor source even when one of its two odor sensors fails, by copying the adaptive behavior of silkmoths, which can still navigate with only one antenna.

Anyone remember smart dust? A cloud of sensors were thrown from a plane into a .. real cloud to study storms, wind patterns, etc.

New tools such as AI, automated tracking, drones, and even virtual reality are letting scientists watch animal groups like flocks, schools, and swarms in far more detail than before.

A case in point: “…decided amongst themselves when to strike.” No “agentic frameworks”… just swarms. https://slashdot.org/story/446276

Google DeepMind’s Perch model helps conservationists analyze audio faster to protect endangered species, from Hawaiian honeycreepers to coral reefs. https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-ai-is-helping-advance-the-science-of-bioacoustics-to-save-endangered-species/

This is part 3 of the Tide Foundation’s five part series on their distributed approach to securing computers. https://tide.org/blog/swarm-intelligence-future-security

https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence