Why does a thousand ant colonies never suffer from

Despite their small size, ants possess great social connections, especially in the way they work in groups. Even scientists are also learning this insect to create high-performance robot products!

Have you ever wondered, why a colony of ants with a number of hundreds or even thousands of people can move, working together in a smooth way, within a limited space of a nest? but they don't encounter the 'traffic jam' like us?

In fact, only a few ants in the herd are working hard.

The solution of ant species heard seems very simple but really effective! In fact, only a few ants in the herd are working hard. More specifically, in an experiment conducted on ant colonies with 150 individuals, scientists discovered that only about 10-15 ants were involved in burrowing, at the same time.

With the aim of ensuring a sufficient number of ants to participate in digging a cave, to avoid congestion, an ant will know to automatically withdraw when meeting a cave that already has its fellow workers in it and continue to search for empty parts to work.

Programming machines that simulate the behavior of ants can help their products make better decisions.

Scientists have also demonstrated the effectiveness of this behavior of ants on robots. Accordingly, they let three robots join in to dig a tight tunnel. Things still go smoothly until the 4th robot is added. At this time, the passageway was blocked and the tunneling work was completely paralyzed. After that, the robots were reprogrammed to learn to retreat themselves when they met the tunnel that had enough robots, and the work efficiency improved markedly.

The robot manufacturing experts believe that programming the machines simulating the behavior of ants can help their products make more accurate decisions, in the process of working in groups, thereby raising High performance of robots!