Ants and Algorithms: 5 Solutions Inspired From Insects

Insects have long inspired human technology. In this article I have five examples of how ants and other insects have inspired current technologies. Scroll down to find out!

Insects have long inspired humans, even before the dawn of time. There is a theory that ants inspired human agriculture. As any observant child will know, ants routinely take seeds into their nests, and occasionally, they will abandon those locations. Could they have inspired prehistoric man to carry seeds, place them under dirt, and care for them?

It’s an interesting theory, but unfortunately, one for which we’ll never know the answer. However, we don’t need to theorize or look so far back into history. In this article, I have five examples of how ants and other insects have inspired current technologies.

Five examples of Insect Tech: 🐜📡

1. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
2. Swarm Intelligence in distributed ...