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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Website, Rewilded
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
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History of A-E
adappt’s heritage is in its name. Read all parts to this series: In part one, we reviewed what was adappt.io, from 2015 to 2024.
View seriesPart 1: adappt.io is now adaptive-emergent
This series of blog posts starts off a new direction for an organisation that went from a going concern…
25-Aug-2024
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Website, Rewilded
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
Read moreEncycle
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
Read moreOpteran 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
Read moreWhat a Bee Knows - Way More Than You Think
At adaptive-emergent, we are looking for simple behaviours in nature that add up to quite complex ones.
12-Mar-2024
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