Fire ants can teach robots about teamwork

Fire ants are teaching robots how to slack at work. Scientists programmed robots to act like ants, and through machine learning, the tech observed a small number of ants actually do most of the work. And in confined, chaotic environments, that’s a good thing. The AI helps optimize work for all.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how fire ants dig tunnels and found with less workers, the ants avoided traffic jams and improved their teamwork overall. Optimizing robots’ activity together through artificial intelligence could help with disaster recovery and even improving self-driving cars.
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[@sath6089]

As long as it's not cockroach robots it's fine.

[@clutchyfinger]

Im not lazy, I'm reducing traffic flow in my town.

[@e3EnglishInstituteSalem]

Fantastic !

[@importantname]

oh too many cooks!!!

[@AnonningAnon]

There's always this one person that will do nothing, because if they did they'd be in the way.

[@NachoTV]

I'll take the non lazy self driving car

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Well, please dont teach an insect robots to flies, they are f up

[@smellycat249]

so now only 30% of they robots will do 70% of the killing! when a robot sees other robots have the killing covered, that robot can move onto the torturing. and a 3rd less active set of robots can be the guards. perfect

[@GabrielKnightz]

Pareto Principle?

[@henlo9690]

I'm the lazy one

[@andid]

Jordan Peterson is SHOOK