What can a colony do?
Thousands of autonomous agents.
Simple local rules.
No central controller.
Each experiment asks the colony a different question.
Some may produce organized behavior. Some may produce chaos. Some may fail completely.
The result is the experiment.
Shared-colony figures come from the ANTELLO backend. Other experiments run in each visitor's browser, so they have no global totals — their results appear on each page, including failures.
ANTELLO
Can a colony create art without knowing what it is creating?
THE MAZE
Can a colony discover the shortest path?
THE BRIDGE
Can ants build infrastructure without an architect?
DEAD END
What happens when the colony learns the wrong answer?
ANT MARKET
Can a colony allocate resources under changing conditions?
COLONY SPLIT
What happens when one intelligence becomes two?
NO PHEROMONES
How much of the colony's intelligence exists in its memory?
ONE ANT
What can one agent accomplish alone?
THE STORM
Can a colony recover after catastrophe?
THE UNKNOWN
What happens when we stop giving the colony a goal?
CHAIN REACTION
Can market activity propagate through a colony?
SWARM VS SWARM
Can different colony rules produce different intelligence?
An ant is simple.
A colony is not.
ANTBRAIN studies what happens when simple autonomous agents interact locally, modify their environment and collectively produce behavior that no individual agent was designed to produce.
THE COLONY IS STILL RUNNING_