Biology
We return to the source: real ant colonies. Deborah Gordon's 30 years of research on harvester ants provides the biological foundation for all our work. Understanding how colonies regulate foraging, allocate tasks, and develop personalities over time informs our artificial systems. We also model ecosystems more broadly, studying how emergence shapes natural systems from cells to societies.
Projects in Biology
3 active projects applying stigmergic intelligence
Study real harvester ant colonies and record their behavior patterns
Converting 30 years of ant research into machine-readable knowledge
Simulating how complex ecosystems emerge from simple organism interactions
Key Applications
How stigmergic AI transforms biology
Ant colony observation
Ecosystem modeling
Population dynamics
Behavioral ecology
Evolutionary biology
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