Adaptive Routing taking Cues from Stigmergy in Ants

There are four distinct advantages in using self organized, emergent, decentralized or “swarm intelligent” systems [1], these are in fact the benefits of a social insect colony as well. We see these colonies as the inspiration to developing artificial decentralized systems.

Flexible: The system can react to internal and external changes.
Robust: Tasks are completed [...]

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An Anecdote to Norbert Wiener

At the end of this post is a funny anecdote about American theoretical and applied mathematician Norbert Wiener. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronics and communication engineering. He is also known and probably best known for being the founder of cybernetics.
His 1948 book, Cybernetics: [...]

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The Working of a Bird Swarm

This post is following the previous post in which i mentioned about the rules governing the motion of a bird swarm.

The video below is a breathtaking, sublime, amazing recording of thousands of starlings in a flock before roosting. This is from the UK country-side. An awesome video, showing not only how beautiful nature is, but [...]

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Morphogenesis and Swarm Robotics

Here is an amazing video!

Something about this video first from the you-tube information about it.

An introduction to swarm intelligence, swarm robotics and morphogenesis. This video won the Best Video award at the AAAI-07 conference Vancouver Canada. The scientific research was performed by Anders Lyhne Christsensen, Rehan O’Grady and Marco Dorigo. The video was directed by [...]

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On Concepts and Lego

Quoting Swarm Intelligence and emergent systems guru Vitorino Ramos (1997)

“People should learn how to play Lego with their minds. Concepts are building bricks”
This happens to be one of my favorite quotes! I am sure all Lego lovers would or do love it!
Photo Credit: Here>>

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What would Feynman do?

Here is a hilariously true flowchart of Feynmans decision making process from WellingtonGrey

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Related Posts on This Blog:
1. Richard Feynman: Sciences Elvis
2. The Feynman Principle
3. Smart Man, Wise man, Feynman!

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Monkey makes Robot move with the power of thought!

This post is as a follow-up to the previous post.

If Idoya could talk she would have plenty to boast about!
On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity.
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“They should be able to move the arm with their thoughts,” he said. “This is science [...]

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A Chip in Your Body

Some months ago i was a part of an IEEE community development program, organized by the power electronics society. It required us to travel to villages and semi-urban schools and give seminars on wireless communications to school children. Our aim was not only to try give them something new and extra from the school curricula, [...]

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Doppler Effect

Back in 11th grade i used to cycle 10kms to listen to some lectures given by an old Physics professor, Mr M.L.Ogalapurkar, he has easily been one of the best professors who has taught me physics. So i would absolutely love the two hours spent there every Friday and Saturday.
One fine day he taught us [...]

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The Turing Test – I

Via BBC-h2g2:

A test for artificial intelligence suggested by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing. The gist of it is that a computer can be considered intelligent when it can hold a sustained conversation with a computer scientist without him being able to distinguish that he is talking with a computer rather than a human [...]

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