And to do this, ants solve the problem of collective search, and this is a problem that's of great interest right now in robotics, because we've understood that, rather than sending a single, sophisticated, expensive robot out to explore another planet or to search a burning building, that instead, it may be more effective to get a group of cheaper robots exchanging only minimal information, and that's the way that ants do it.
For at klare dette løser myrer problemet at søge kollektivt og dette problem har stor interesse indenfor robotteknologi fordi vi har forstået at i stedet for at sende en enkelt sofistikeret og dyr robot ud for at udforske en anden planet eller for at gennemsøge en brændende bygning, kan det være mere effektivt at bruge en gruppe af billige robotter som udveksler minimal information, og det er sådan myrer gør det.