Ants Build Cheapest Networks 108
schliz writes "When building a network from scratch, Argentine ants tend to connect their nests in the way that, while more inconvenient for individual ants, requires the minimum amount of trail. Researchers studying 'supercolonies' of the ants found them building networks that closely resembled the mathematical shortest path — a Steiner tree. They hope to apply their work to self-healing, organic computing networks of self-organising sensors, robots, computers, and autonomous cars." This story adds to the earlier report of ants' networking prowess.
Evolution is smarter than you. (Score:5, Insightful)
Them ants is smart (Score:4, Insightful)
Or maybe we're just underestimating the intelligence of soap [flickr.com]