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The physical intelligence of ant and robot collectives (seas.harvard.edu)
2 points by hhs on Dec 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Had to re-watch the "photormone" robots a second time to fully understand it, that's absolutely brilliant. "Individual reactions of a Crowd in regions of Self-Signaling" sounds far more useful than merely remote-controlling all the robots.

"Physical Intelligence" is quite a nice Concept, as well. Me being someone who sees Human Intelligence as rising from "mere" Neurons and Brain, "mere" Limbs and Body. The idea of "A Trillion Cells" is totally unfathomable, yet that I am.

Nature is limitless in inspiration for improving Technology or our own Behavior - Even stupid Rocks are so Bold as to Passively Resist whatever you might try on them!




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