Battlefield Swarm Say, from here the soldiers look like ants ... Strategic Simulations, Inc./University of Granada From Popular Science:
The Spanish army is using ant colony algorithms to plot the best paths through future battlefields.
Moving through real-life battlefields inevitably proves trickier than playing a game of Minesweeper, but Spanish researchers and army officers have converted the video game Panzer General into a simulator that can test troop maneuver algorithms based on ant colony behavior.
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