Swarm Intelligence: Many Small, One Big Brain

Intelligence does not always live in a single machine. Swarm Intelligence: Many Small, One Big Brain explores how simple robots, acting together, produce behavior more powerful and resilient than any individual unit.
This book is inspired by nature, not hospitals. It looks at ants, birds, and schools of fish to explain how coordination, emergence, and collective behavior translate into robotic systems. Instead of centralized control, the focus is on local rules, interaction, and adaptation.
Readers discover how swarms handle uncertainty, scale effortlessly, and survive failure by design. The book explains why losing units does not collapse the system—and why this property matters for exploration, search-and-rescue, agriculture, and distributed sensing.
This book explores:
• How collective behavior emerges from simple rules
• Why decentralization increases robustness
• How swarms adapt without global awareness
• Where many small robots outperform one complex one
• Why intelligence can be a property of interaction
This book is for researchers, system designers, and thinkers drawn to non-traditional intelligence. If you are curious how order arises without command—and how robotics can scale by letting go of control—this book shows how many become one.