{"id":175716,"date":"2023-11-09T18:26:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/honeybee-behavior-as-a-model-for-decision-making-in-a-kilobot-swarm"},"modified":"2023-11-09T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T00:26:13","slug":"honeybee-behavior-as-a-model-for-decision-making-in-a-kilobot-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/honeybee-behavior-as-a-model-for-decision-making-in-a-kilobot-swarm","title":{"rendered":"Honeybee behavior as a model for decision-making in a kilobot swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/honeybee-behavior-as-a-model-for-decision-making-in-a-kilobot-swarm3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Barcelona have made a sweet discovery: Honeybees make great subjects when studying the dynamic of group behavior and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>In a recently released study, Professor M. Carmen Miguel, who has previously studied leadership activity among schooling fish and social interactions among flocks of birds, said a group of mini robots were trained to reach a consensus on tasks by mimicking processes displayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/bees\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The intricate behavior of bees has long been a subject of great interest among researchers. There are more than 4,000 species of the insect, and they have been around for more than 100 million years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Barcelona have made a sweet discovery: Honeybees make great subjects when studying the dynamic of group behavior and decision-making. In a recently released study, Professor M. Carmen Miguel, who has previously studied leadership activity among schooling fish and social interactions among flocks of birds, said a group of mini robots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}