They are one of nature's most spectacular and most mysterious spectacles — moments where hundreds if not thousands of animals, herrings, starlings, beetles, appear to move together seemingly as one ...

Murmuration defines the collective behavior of very large numbers of individuals, who coordinate in a very rigorous way in complex movements without a conductor. Starlings, schools of fish or bicycle ...

In the future, the most useful robots will work together as hives. That’s according to Radhika Nagpal, co-founder of Root Robotics and professor of computer science at Harvard University. Nagpal spoke ...

Swarm behavior is a phenomenon observed in nature where flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of insects exhibit coordinated movement. Each entity interacts with its surroundings and other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the emerging realization that ...

Using state-of-the-art robotics, a research team shows that animals' speed is fundamental for collective behavioral patterns, and that ultimately it is the faster individuals that have the strongest ...

If we think of intelligence as not only contained inside individual minds but as also emerging between people, then dialogue can be seen as key to collective intelligence. Traditional approaches to ...

This is where Collective Adaptive Intelligence (CAI) comes in. CAI is a form of collective intelligence in which the ...