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.
蚁群为了解决这个问题, 采用了 集体搜索的方法, 而这个问题现在已经引起了 机器人研究人员的极大兴趣, 因为我们都知道, 与其用一个单一的 复杂且昂贵的机器人 去探索另外的星球 或去火场搜救, 或许有更好的方式 就是造一堆便宜的机器人 相互之间仅仅交换简单的信息, 就像是蚂蚁所做的那样.