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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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
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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.
View seriesAgentic 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
Read moreA milestone - demos!
We are happy to announce that the Gallery part of our website is now available for viewing! You can see six different algorithms at work.
24-May-2026
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Bee-inspired navigation robot pinpoints its home using a neural network
Researchers demonstrated a lightweight navigation system inspired by honeybee learning flights that allows small drones to return home using compact visual memories rather than large-scale mapping systems.
21-May-2026
Read moreSwarm Robotic Warehouse Picking Systems
The system uses decentralized coordination and local signaling inspired by ant colony task allocation to distribute warehouse-picking workloads dynamically across autonomous robots.
19-May-2026
Read moreEuropean Telecom Consortium Tests Ant-Inspired Self-Healing Network Routing
The consortium demonstrated distributed telecom routing methods based on pheromone-style path reinforcement and stigmergy.
19-May-2026
Read moreAI-powered military drones and the future of warfare
The advanced capabilities of AI-based navigation in military drones mean they will no longer require human training. They will rely on near-instantaneous sensor data from cameras, LiDAR, and radar to identify obstacles that will inform their future navigation, such as mountains, structures, and other aircraft.
19-May-2026
Read moreBio-inspired Decentralized Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles
Bosch researchers developed a decentralized collaborative mapping system inspired by ant pheromone trails and swarm intelligence.
18-May-2026
Read moreApplied Intuition UK Awarded Dstl Contract to Lead Consortium Accelerating Cutting-Edge Swarming Capabilities
This UK defence programme targets software-defined swarms with both simulation and live-flight trials.
18-May-2026
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Washington Post - An American industrial revolution is brewing. I saw it in Pittsburgh.
Gecko is interesting because it is not a humanoid-robotics hype company. It is a very applied “robots + sensors + asset data” company aimed at boring but valuable infrastructure problems: corrosion, wall thinning, cracking, maintenance scheduling, shutdown reduction, and safety. The robot is the data-gathering wedge; the defensible product may be the accumulated infrastructure data layer and decision platform.
13-May-2026
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