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company announcement

More demos from the human realm

(See the original demos announcement at the link).

28-Jun-2026

Series sampler

Algorithms on Display

(See the original demos announcement at the link). We have added more algorithms to the website to try out and tweak.

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Artificial vs Natural Intelligence

Over this 7-part series, we’ve explored how natural systems — ants, bees, birds, and brains — solve problems through emergence, not instruction.

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History of A-E

adaptive-emergent now has a more focussed direction. Part one of this series looked at the history from 2015 to 2021; Part two explained why adappt.

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explainer

Agentic Swarms - Lessons from Nature for Enterprise AI

A great article to capture the principles we use at adaptive-emergent. Lessons forgotten in the cloud.

08-Jun-2026

explainer

Agentic Swarms - Lessons from Nature for Enterprise AI

company announcement

New website is live! In August 2024 the former adappt.io was renamed to adaptive-emergent.com to narrow the scope from web3 distributed networks to biomimetic ones (read the three part series on this starting here). Along with the name change was a new website, written with Claude AI as it was at the time.

26-Oct-2025

company profile

Encycle

From commercial HVAC to coordinated “swarm intelligence” Encycle is an energy-technology company with origins in Toronto, developing software that helps buildings use less energy and respond more flexibly to the power grid.

25-Oct-2025

company profile

Opteran Technologies

From Sheffield research to “natural intelligence” Opteran Technologies (registered in the UK as Opteran Technologies Limited) is a spin-out from University of Sheffield that formally incorporated in March 2020.

25-Oct-2025